Elsje Macaulay Quotes

#1. Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated. #Quote by Rose Macaulay

#2. Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow. #Quote by Rose Macaulay

#3. The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border. #Quote by Rose Macaulay

#5. I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#6. I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#7. Language is the machine of the poet. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#9. Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#10. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. #Quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay

#11. Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#12. We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. #Quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay

#14. Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#15. Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries ... and never pass a waking hour without a book before me. #Quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay

#16. The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon. #Quote by Rose Macaulay

#17. He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#18. Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#19. I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#20. Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#21. [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#22. I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#23. I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. #Quote by Lord Melbourne

#24. It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#25. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#26. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

#27. How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile. #Quote by Rose Macaulay

#28. One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others. #Quote by J. C. Macaulay

#29. I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers. #Quote by Macaulay Culkin

#30. I can't think, if people want gods, why not the Greek ones; they were so useful in emergencies, and such enterprising and entertaining companions. Capricious, of course, but helpful, unless one offended them. I don't know why paganism has so quite gone out in England. #Quote by Rose Macaulay

#31. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. #Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay