Quotes by : Thomas Babington Macaulay

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor....

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought....

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

Thus spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To all men upon this Earth, death cometh soon or....

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice....

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.