Quote #13
Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.
More from Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Reform, that we may preserve.
- The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
- What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To re…
- Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
- That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
- To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
- I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
- An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.