Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
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.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
