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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

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others. — J. C. Macaulay

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion. — Rose Macaulay

[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 wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. — Lord Melbourne

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

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. — Rose 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

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas. — Rose 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

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head. — 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

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. — J. C. 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 Clusium
By 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

[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

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. — Thomas B. Macaulay