Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

Sometimes you make friends when they are useful.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Where a phrase is susceptible of two meanings, we ought certainly to adopt that which will bring upon us the fewest inconveniences

… it is well to realize that as the years go on, we are being given a constantly increasing variety of ways in which we may do things, so we have a choice and may fit whatever we do to our personal needs and the circumstances of the moment. There are often times when I would rather travel by train, there are many times when nothing gives more pleasure than to step into a car and drive off. There are other times when I can think of no way in which to go where I want except by air. There are many times when I would rather sit at home and listen to the radio. There are times when I want to be in the great hall and actually see the orchestra playing, or hear the speech being made. It is all a question of meeting our needs and desires in new ways.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

I could easily make Nashville a permanent home.

People have choices. They are going to vote with their feet.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

I chose basketball over film.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

I definitely think the first works best.

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.