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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
— Thomas De Quincey
The public is a bad guesser.
— Thomas De Quincey
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
— Thomas De Quincey
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
— Thomas De Quincey
Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.
— Thomas De Quincey
No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
— Thomas De Quincey
Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings.
— Thomas De Quincey
The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence.
— Thomas De Quincey
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
— Thomas De Quincey
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
— Thomas De Quincey
Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
— Thomas De Quincey
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
— Thomas De Quincey
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
— Thomas De Quincey
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
The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
— Thomas De Quincey
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
the tyranny of the human face
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A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.
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Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
— Thomas De Quincey
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
— Thomas De Quincey
All that is literature seeks to communicate power
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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
— Thomas De Quincey
Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.
— Thomas De Quincey
Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.
— Thomas De Quincey
The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
— Thomas De Quincey
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
— Thomas De Quincey
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
— Thomas De Quincey
Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.
— Thomas De Quincey
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
— Thomas De Quincey
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
— Thomas De Quincey
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
— Thomas De Quincey
I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
— Thomas De Quincey
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
— Thomas De Quincey
Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
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It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.
— Thomas De Quincey
Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
— Thomas De Quincey
The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
— Thomas De Quincey
Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.
— Thomas De Quincey
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
— Thomas De Quincey
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
— Thomas De Quincey
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
— Thomas De Quincey
The burden of the incommunicable.
— Thomas De Quincey