Logo
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Recognition
category

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

Category:
Recognition

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Recognition

The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

Category:
Recognition

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

Category:
Recognition

Random Quotes

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Category:
Humor

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
Religion

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. – Bette Davis

Category:
Happiness

Its clever, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling

Category:
Art