Thomas Love Peacock Quotes


The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.


Citations

Peacock, Thomas Love. Nightmare Abbey. T. Hookham, 1818, p. 165.

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Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock
  • Born: October 18, 1785
  • Died: January 23, 1866
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author

Thomas Love Peacock 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 other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.