Thomas de Quincey Quotes
"Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Rest, Sun)
"Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Love, Cows, Deep, Quiet, Tenderness)
"Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Imperfection, May, State)
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Drinking, Man, Murder, Procrastination, Sabbath)
"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Life, Wife, Conscience)
"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Earth, London)
"Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Deals, Grave, Will)
"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Men, Light, Man, May, Solitude, World)
"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Favorite, Tea, Will)