Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

"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?"
Thomas Love Peacock
"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."
Thomas Love Peacock
"The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams."
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and they influenced each o...