Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacockwas an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 October 1785
clouds heaven vaults
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.
summer wise heart
In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.
book quarrels quoting
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
going-away convincing audience
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
greek humanity insulting
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.
waste scarcity resources
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
wine juice liquid
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
drinking wine two
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.
taken school littles
When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
time gay race
The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.