Famous Thomas De Quincey Quotes
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas De Quincey
