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Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
— Rose Macaulay
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[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
— Florence Nightingale
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
— Macaulay Culkin
I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.
— Macaulay Culkin
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
— Rose Macaulay
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
— Rose Macaulay
I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
— Macaulay Culkin
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
— Macaulay Culkin
Reform, that we may preserve.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I don't even get an allowance.
— Macaulay Culkin
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
— Macaulay Culkin
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
— Macaulay Culkin
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
— Macaulay Culkin
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
— Rose Macaulay
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
— Macaulay Culkin
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
— Rose Macaulay
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
— Macaulay Culkin
Love's a disease. But curable.
— Rose Macaulay
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
— Macaulay Culkin
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
— Macaulay Culkin
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
— Macaulay Culkin
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
— Macaulay Culkin
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
— Charles Macaulay
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
— Macaulay Culkin
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Not sure if I need a glass of wine or a gun or both.
— Charles Macaulay
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Nearly all novels are too long.
— Rose Macaulay
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
— Rose Macaulay
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"fate. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Almost everything people do is artistic. That doesn't make it art.
— Macaulay Culkin
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
— Rose Macaulay
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.
— Rose Macaulay
Lars Porsena of ClusiumBy the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrongs no more. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
— David Macaulay
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.
— Kieran Culkin
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
— David Macaulay
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
— Rose Macaulay
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
