12 Quotations by Thomas De Quincey
- 1. Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles. What is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
- 2. Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their ...
- 3. Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous ...
- 4. If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro ...
- 5. In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
- 6. It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to s ...
- 7. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- 8. Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude i ...
- 9. Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude i ...
- 10. Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always b ...
- 11. The public is a bad guesser.
- 12. Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
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