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Author - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Quotes by : Thomas Babington Macaulay
creation
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.....
Portraits
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
politics
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor....
intellect
The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
Better
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of....
Fool
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought....
Civilization
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Alone
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Alone
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice....
Mind
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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