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Top 25 Thomas Love Peacock Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”

1. “The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”

— Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels with the whole universe for not containing a sylph.”

3. “You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels with the whole universe for not containing a sylph.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.”

4. “My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.”

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

5. “I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

6. “I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.”

7. “Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.”

8. “The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”

9. “The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”

11. “Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”

13. “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.”

14. “The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

15. “They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “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!”

16. “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!”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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

18. “Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

19. “I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.”

20. “Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.”

21. “Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.”

22. “The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “A book that furnishes no quotations is no book – it is a plaything.”

23. “A book that furnishes no quotations is no book – it is a plaything.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “I perceive, Sir, you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason.”

24. “I perceive, Sir, you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Surely not without reason, when pirates, highwaymen, and other varieties of the extensive genus Marauder, are the only beau ideal of the active, as splenetic and railing misanthropy is of the speculative energy.”

25. “Surely not without reason, when pirates, highwaymen, and other varieties of the extensive genus Marauder, are the only beau ideal of the active, as splenetic and railing misanthropy is of the speculative energy.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Now I should rather suppose there is no reason for it: it is the fashion to be unhappy. To have a reason for being so would be exceedingly commonplace: to be so without any is the province of genius.”

26. “Now I should rather suppose there is no reason for it: it is the fashion to be unhappy. To have a reason for being so would be exceedingly commonplace: to be so without any is the province of genius.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.”

27. “Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”

28. “Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”

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Thomas Love Peacock Quote: “The explanation, said Mr Glowry, is very satisfactory. The Great Mogul has taken lodgings at Kensington, and the external part of the ear is a cartilaginous funnel.”

29. “The explanation, said Mr Glowry, is very satisfactory. The Great Mogul has taken lodgings at Kensington, and the external part of the ear is a cartilaginous funnel.”

— Thomas Love Peacock

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