Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock (English Satirist)

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other’s work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.

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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longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual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.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Poetry

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham’s three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Wine

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Praise, Audiences

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Animals

He kept at true good humour’s mark
The social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Sympathy

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Marriage, Sex

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Names

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Excess, Waste

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book—it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock
Topics: Quotations

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