Top 60 Thomas de Quincey Quotes (2024 Update)
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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.”

51. “Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Often one’s dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.”

52. “Often one’s dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.”

53. “A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.”

54. “It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”

55. “Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.”

56. “Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.”

57. “Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous ‘gluttonism’ for books.”

58. “Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous ‘gluttonism’ for books.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.”

59. “Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.”

60. “To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.”

61. “The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.”

62. “Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.”

63. “Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure.”

64. “Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.”

65. “People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “Here were the hopes which blossom in the paths of life, reconciled with the peace which is in the grave; motions of the intellect as unwearied as the heavens, yet for all anxieties a halcyon of calm: a tranquillity that seem no product of inertia, but as if resulting from mighty and equal antagonisms; infinite activities, infinite repose.”

66. “Here were the hopes which blossom in the paths of life, reconciled with the peace which is in the grave; motions of the intellect as unwearied as the heavens, yet for all anxieties a halcyon of calm: a tranquillity that seem no product of inertia, but as if resulting from mighty and equal antagonisms; infinite activities, infinite repose.”

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Thomas de Quincey Quote: “It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.”

67. “It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.”

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