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
wise wine moon
Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.
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.
almost celibacy marriage muddy stormy
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
cure prevent
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.
sheep mountain valleys
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
time kindness flower
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.
country men wife
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
laughter exertion
Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.
dream sleep promise
How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!
death hands world
Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?
laughter age too-much
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.
love destiny thinking
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
book quotations
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
sympathy condolences dark
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.