Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Thomas Love Peacock:

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
~Thomas Love Peacock


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#a8df59d7

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
~Thomas Love Peacock


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#00b9933f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#2cf0358d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#f7be2dfd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#9b1decc2

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
~Thomas Love Peacock


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#c2928867

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
~Thomas Love Peacock


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#3722c34c

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
~Thomas Love Peacock


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#4afb697e

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
~Thomas Love Peacock


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-love-peacock-quotes/#cade4f8a

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