Thomas Hope

Thomas Hope may refer to:

  • Thomas Hope (1704–1779), Dutch banker
  • Thomas Hope (1769–1831), collector, grandson of the former
  • Thomas Hope (architect) (1757–1820), English-born American architect
  • Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet (1573–1646), Scottish lawyer
  • Thomas Hope (politician) (1848–1925), UK MP for the Scottish constituency of Linlithgowshire, 1893–1895
  • Thomas Hope (MP), MP for Maidstone
  • Thomas Charles Hope (1766–1844), Scottish physician and chemist

Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or hope:

    “Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)

    “When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
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