Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

"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
(Related: Cure)

"The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Waste)

"Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Animals, Man, Nothing, Obvious)

"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
(Related: Power, Lies)

"Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Names)

"I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away."
- Thomas Love Peacock

"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Quotations)

"Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Marriage, Celibacy, May)