Thomas de Quincey Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Thomas de Quincey Quotes and Sayings


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    Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    The public is a bad guesser. Thomas de Quincey | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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