Nightmare Abbey

“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; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head.””

— Thomas Love Peacock

“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.””

— Thomas Love Peacock

“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would have been radical, if disappointment in love, and total solitude, had not conspired to bring on a relapse.””

— Thomas Love Peacock

“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end”

— Thomas Love Peacock

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

— Thomas Love Peacock

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

— Thomas Love Peacock

“There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards.””

— Thomas Love Peacock

“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

“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.””

— Thomas Love Peacock