Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

But still my fancy wanders freeThrough that which might have been.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Death comes to all. His cold and sapless handWaves o’er the world, and beckons us away.Who shall resist the summons?

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

Time, the foe of man’s dominion,Wheels around in ceaseless flight,Scattering from his hoary pinionShades of everlasting night.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.