Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Confusion

Quotes about: Confusion

• Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Confusion, Political

  "Southey's Colloquies on Society" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

• Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Spring, Expression, Ideas

  John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay (2016). “Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political”, p.89, Editions Le Mono

• Was none who would be foremost
  To lead such dire attack;
  But those behind cried "Forward!"
  And those before cried "Back!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Confusion, Would Be, Behinds

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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