The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature. Thomas Love Peacock More Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock More Quotes From Thomas Love Peacock Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. Thomas Love Peacock marriage lakes relationship But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago. Thomas Love Peacock flower kindness time Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country. Thomas Love Peacock wife men country Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me. Thomas Love Peacock laughter humor funny 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longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual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 poetry reading class Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. Thomas Love Peacock use animal men Time, the foe of man's dominion, Thomas Love Peacock time men night The present is our own; but while we speak, Thomas Love Peacock gay race time Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Thomas Love Peacock yield time men Time is lord of thee: Thomas Love Peacock wealth names time Seamen three! what men be ye? Thomas Love Peacock wine moon wise I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. Thomas Love Peacock destiny love thinking Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. Thomas Love Peacock connections tea ideas But still my fancy wanders free Thomas Love Peacock wander fancy might 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 drink drunk lying There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. Thomas Love Peacock prevent cure you two A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. Thomas Love Peacock plaything quotations book
