Famous quotes containing the words babington macaulay, thomas, babington and/or macaulay:
“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“I see you boys of summer in your ruin.
Man in his maggot’s barren.
And boys are full and foreign in the pouch.
I am the man your father was.
We are the sons of flint and pitch.
O see the poles are kissing as they cross.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)