72 Quotations with Macaulay.
- 1. Dame Rose Macaulay: It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

- 2. Thomas Babington Macaulay: It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

- 3. Dame Rose Macaulay: At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

- 4. Dame Rose Macaulay: He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - c ...

- 5. Lord Macaulay: The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

- 6. Dame Rose Macaulay: It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them.

- 7. Thomas Babington Macaulay: I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, ...

- 8. Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but becaus ...

- 9. Ethel Barrymore: For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of ...

- 10. Thomas Macaulay: The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but becau ...

- 11. Thomas Macaulay: The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would ne ...

- 12. Thomas B. Macaulay: A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and a ...

- 13. Thomas B. Macaulay: A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and ...

- 14. Thomas B. Macaulay: A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

- 15. Rose Macaulay: A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exq ...

- 16. Thomas B. Macaulay: A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to lo ...

- 17. Thomas B. Macaulay: And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his father ...

- 18. Rose Macaulay: As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals ...

- 19. Thomas B. Macaulay: Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexa ...

- 20. Rose Macaulay: Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty ...

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