Thomas De Quincey Quotes

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! - Thomas De Quincey

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move. - Thomas De Quincey

The public is a bad guesser. - Thomas De Quincey

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

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

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

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