Quote

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas B. Macaulay
British
Morality
Public
Periodical
Spectacle
Fits
Ridiculous
Fit

More quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Image
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Reform, that we may preserve.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Thomas B. Macaulay