Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes

Scotland By No Means Escaped The Fate Ordained For Every Country Which Is Connected, But Not Incorporated, With Another Country Of Greater Resources.

If Ever Shakespeare Rants, It Is Not When His Imagination Is Hurrying Him Along, But When He Is Hurrying His Imagination Along.

The Highest Eulogy Which Can Be Pronounced On The Revolution Of 1688 Is This That This Was Our Last Revolution.

He Had Done That Which Could Never Be Forgiven; He Was In The Grasp Of One Who Never Forgave.

Propriety Of Thought And Propriety Of Diction Are Commonly Found Together. Obscurity And Affectation Are The Two Greatest Faults Of Style. Obscurity Of Expression Generally Springs From Confusion Of Ideas; And The Same Wish To Dazzle, At Any Cost, Which Produces Affectation In The Manner Of A Writer, Is Likely To Produce Sophistry In His Reasonings.

Was None Who Would Be Foremost To Lead Such Dire Attack; But Those Behind Cried "forward!" And Those Before Cried "back!

Forget All Feuds, And Shed One English Tear O'er English Dust. A Broken Heart Lies Here.

Lars Porsena Of Clusium By The Nine Gods He Swore That The Great House Of Tarquin Should Suffer Wrongs No More.

Turn Where We May, Within, Around, The Voice Of Great Events Is Proclaiming To Us, Reform, That You May Preserve!

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 Any Monstrosity.

We Do Not Think It Necessary To Prove That A Quack Medicine Is Poison; Let The Vender Prove It To Be Sanative.

I Shall Not Be Satisfied Unless I Produce Something Which Shall For A Few Days Supersede The Last Fashionable Novel On The Tables Of Young Ladies.