Quotes About 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.

The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence.

For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual;

Thou only givest these gifts to man, and thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure

Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.

I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed, I hounour the barbarians too much by supposing them capable of any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.