Thomas Babington Quotes


Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! - Thomas Babington Macaulay


When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's. - Thomas Babington


We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs. - Thomas Babington


These be the great Twin Brethren / To whom the Dorians pray. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


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