--- title: "16 May Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay" description: "16 May quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay. Plus more from Thomas B. Macaulay and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_criticism_in-truth-it-may-be-laid-down-as-an-almos_295020.png" --- > [In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/in-truth-it-may-be-laid-down-as-an-almost-universal-rule-that-good/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_criticism_in-truth-it-may-be-laid-down-as-an-almos_295020.png) > [A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/a-history-in-which-every-particular-incident-may-be-true-may-on-the/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fa/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_being-true_a-history-in-which-every-particular-inci_1318598.png) > [It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/it-may-be-laid-as-an-universal-rule-that-a-government-which-attempts/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_government_it-may-be-laid-as-an-universal-rule-that_692662.png) > [Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/logicians-may-reason-about-abstractions-but-the-great-mass-of-men/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/719/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_abstraction_logicians-may-reason-about-abstractions_1956893.png) > [Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/those-who-compare-the-age-in-which-their-lot-has-fallen-with-a-golden/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdb/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_age_those-who-compare-the-age-in-which-their_2497358.png) > [War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/war-is-never-lenient-but-where-it-is-wanton-where-men-are-compelled/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab5/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_clay_war-is-never-lenient-but-where-it-is-wan_2722382.png) > [But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, Wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/but-thou-through-good-and-evil-praise-and-blame-wilt-not-thou-love-me/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec8/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_betray_but-thou-through-good-and-evil-praise-an_1422753.png) > [It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/it-is-impossible-for-us-with-our-limited-means-to-attempt-to-educate/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/144/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_body_it-is-impossible-for-us-with-our-limited_1741535.jpg) > [No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/no-particular-man-is-necessary-to-the-state-we-may-depend-on-it-that/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_country_no-particular-man-is-necessary-to-the-st_2766392.png) > [It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/it-is-i-believe-no-exaggeration-to-say-that-all-the-historical/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_believe_it-is-i-believe-no-exaggeration-to-say-t_189339.png) > [In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/in-after-life-you-may-have-friends-fond-dear-friends-but-never-will/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cc/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_dear_in-after-life-you-may-have-friends-fond_2063315.png) > [When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/when-the-great-kepler-bad-at-length-discovered-the-harmonic-laws-that/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_body_when-the-great-kepler-bad-at-length-disc_1184019.png) > [The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-study-of-the-properties-of-numbers-plato-tells-us-habituates-the/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/147/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_able_the-study-of-the-properties-of-numbers-p_2491828.jpg) > [Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim… If, like those of Rochefoucault,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/every-man-who-has-seen-the-world-knows-that-nothing-is-so-useless-as/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_action_every-man-who-has-seen-the-world-knows-t_1025365.jpg) > [No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/no-war-ought-ever-to-be-undertaken-but-under-circumstances-which/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_bad-thing_no-war-ought-ever-to-be-undertaken-but-u_2232164.jpg) > [A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/a-politician-must-often-talk-and-act-before-he-has-thought-and-read/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6f/thomas-b-macaulay-1980_ability_a-politician-must-often-talk-and-act-bef_1810645.png) ## Other authors on May ## More by Thomas B. Macaulay > [A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/a-beggarly-people-a-church-and-no-steeple/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/we-must-judge-a-government-by-its-general-tendencies-and-not-by-its/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/none-of-the-modes-by-which-a-magistrate-is-appointed-popular-election/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/our-estimate-of-a-character-always-depends-much-on-the-manner-in/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/re-robert-montgomery-s-poems-his-writing-bears-the-same-relation-to/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/highest-among-those-who-have-exhibited-human-nature-by-means-of/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-most-beautiful-object-in-the-world-it-will-be-allowed-is-a/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-passages-in-which-milton-has-alluded-to-his-own-circumstances-are/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/oh-wherefore-come-ye-forth-in-triumph-from-the-north-with-your-hands/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/it-is-i-believe-no-exaggeration-to-say-that-all-the-historical/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/ambrose-phillips-who-had-the-honor-of-bringing-into-fashion-a-species/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/in-the-infancy-of-civilization-when-our-island-was-as-savage-as-new/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/in-truth-it-may-be-laid-down-as-an-almost-universal-rule-that-good/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/he-had-a-head-which-statuaries-loved-to-copy-and-a-foot-the-deformity/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) > [The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-spartan-smiting-and-spurning-the-wretched-helot-moves-our-disgust/) [Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/thomas-b-macaulay/#itemlist", "name": "16 May Quotes By Thomas B. 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