Famous quotes containing the words babington macaulay, thomas, babington and/or macaulay:
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“If you want to use a cliché you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)
“Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)