Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes (26 quotes)

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„I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.“
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„An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.“
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„We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.“
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„The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.“
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„There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.“
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„Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.“
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„To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.“
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„Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.“
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„The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.“
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„I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.“
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„The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.“
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„Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.“
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„A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.“
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„Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.“
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„And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?“
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„The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.“
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„The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.“
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„Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.“
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„A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.“
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„To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.“

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Author born: August 25, 1800
Author died: December 28, 1859
Nationality: British
Author Profession: Poet

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