244 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.