24 ordspråk av Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey föddes den 15 august 1785 och dog den 8 december 1859 - brittisk författare och journalist.
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Spor, som en gang er blevet indprentet i hukommelsen, er uforgængelige.

Spår som en gång blivit inpräntade i minnet är oförgängliga.

Det orättvisa är att man måste läsa tusentals böcker bara för att upptäcka att man inte hade behövt läsa dem.

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Det är en av livets olyckor att man får lov att läsa tusentals böcker bara för att upptäcka att man inte behövde ha läst dem.

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.

Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated - everlasting farewells!

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state

Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.

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.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

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