Macaulay quotes

The great apostle of the Philistine, Lord Macaulay.

- Matthew Arnold
  Essays in Criticism First Series,'Joubert'.

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

-Bruce Frederick Cummings
  Journal of  A Disappointed Man, 23 Oct.

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

- Ethel Barrymore
Quoted in George  Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953).

I wish that I was as cocksure of anything asTom Macaulay is of everything.

-William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
   Attributed by Earl Cowper.

Macaulay,Gibbon,Tolstoy, Francis Parkman and other immortals†never said anything in two pages that might possibly sound better in10.

- FrankJ Prial
Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 31 Mar1990.