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Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
– Thomas Love Peacock
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
– Thomas Love Peacock
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
– Thomas Love Peacock
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
– Thomas Love Peacock
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
– Thomas Love Peacock
You have dished me up, like a savoury omelette, to gratify the appetite of the reading rabble for gossip.
– 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