Quote

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas B. Macaulay
Without
Crowns
Really
Directing
Would
Utterly
Sooner
Abdicated
Administration
Detested
Ambition
Undergone
Trouble
Charles
Business
Crown

More quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Image
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison let the vender prove it to be sanative.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Our judgment ripens our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Reform, that we may preserve.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
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
The end of government is the happiness of the people.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Image
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.
Thomas B. Macaulay