212 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.