Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas Penson De Quinceywas an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 August 1785
deep-love animal breathing
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.
farewell everlasting
Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
fierce sectarianism
Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
drinking men sobriety
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.
numbers promise ratios
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.