Quotes by : Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest....

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

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

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

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of....

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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.