38 ordspråk av Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay föddes den 25 oktober 1800 och dog den 28 december 1859 - engelsk historiker, politiker och essayist.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Poeter

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Handling

Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action

Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors

Poesi

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife

Poesi

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both

Demokrati

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Myndighet

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

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