Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist, poet, and official

Lived from: 1785 - 1866

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 18 october 1785 Died: 23 january 1866

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

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• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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• A book that furnishes no quotations is no book, it is a plaything.

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

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• Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

  Headlong hall (1816)

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Subjects in these quotes:

• exclusively
• plaything
• resource
• scarcity
• marriage
• celibacy

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