Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have ca
...
The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More
Apps...
Thomas Love Peacock quotes
- 9 of 9 Results
A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book--it is a plaything.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June: ...
On a brilliant night of June: ...
The rich man goes out yachting,
Where sanctity can't pursue him; ...
Where sanctity can't pursue him; ...
The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter; ...
But the valley sheep are fatter; ...
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
