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)
“He holds the wire from this box of nerves
Praising the moral error
Of birth and death, the two sad knaves of thieves,
And the hunger’s emperor;
He pulls the chain, the cistern moves.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.”
—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)