Thomas Love Peacock

“The art of living is to make a little go a long way.”

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

“I am for the synthetical method of poetry, which is, beginning with the conclusion.”

“The greatest benefit we can confer on another is to help him to see himself as he is.”

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

“If I indulge in my passion for solitude, it is because I have found that my friends are more dangerous than my enemies.”

“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.”

“There is a passion for reforming the world, and there is a passion for going pleasantly through it.”

“Life is a farce, and the ideal of happiness is an illusion.”

“War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.”

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

“An opera is a musical concert, which is a contrivance for ruining the voice.”

“A book that is not worth speaking of is not worth reading.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

“The love of life is the root of all that is good in us.”

“The poor man who has a large family is always in the way.”

“Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.”