Quotes About Macaulay

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

contrast with, say, Whig historians, such as Macaulay in nineteenth-century England, is striking. The Arab historians had no belief in the progress of humanity. Instead they waited for God to declare the End of Time.

Potterism is worst of all in America, that great home of commerce, success and the booming of the second rate.

I've never thought about the ages of my readers.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

Thomas Macaulay's History of England

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

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

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

In 1828 the British historian Macaulay dubbed the press gallery in Parliament a 'fourth estate' of the realm. Today the news media appear to have become the first estate able to topple monarchs and turn Parliament into a talking shop which ceases to exist if journalists turn their backs.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.