“ Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? Thomas Love Peacock
“ Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Thomas Love Peacock
“ My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My castles in the air. Thomas Love Peacock
“ Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. Thomas Love Peacock
“ On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude. Thomas Love Peacock
“ 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; and… Thomas Love Peacock
“ Raven: The Honourable Mr Listless is gone. He declared that, what with family quarrels in the morning, and ghosts at night, he could get neither sleep nor peace; and that the agitation was too much fo… Thomas Love Peacock
“ A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a forest of thistles, a plantation of nettles, without any live stock but goats, that have eaten up all… Thomas Love Peacock
“ Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke:... Thomas Love Peacock
“ She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness. Thomas Love Peacock
“ He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would hav… Thomas Love Peacock
“ If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world. Thomas Love Peacock
“ Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a para… Thomas Love Peacock
“ 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. Thomas Love Peacock
