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Thomas de Quincey - From the Books category:
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Critics category:
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)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Drunkenness category:
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Earth category:
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Friendship category:
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Intellect category:
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Knowledge category:
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Perfection category:
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Pleasure category:
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Poetry category:
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis. (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Solitude category:
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)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Style category:
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)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Tyranny category:
...the tyranny of the human face... (Thomas de Quincey)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Words category:
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)
Thomas de Quincey - From the Writing category:
But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper. (Thomas de Quincey)
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