Columns Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

— 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…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

— 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…

— 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…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Thomas B. Macaulay