Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English satirist and author.. English poet novelist
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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longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual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. Go to Quote / Comment
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. Go to Quote / Comment
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Go to Quote / Comment
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything. Go to Quote / Comment
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. Go to Quote / Comment