Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Philosophical, Vocabulary, People

• The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Beauty, Book, Language

  "On John Dryden" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.

• This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Men, Ignorant

• Language is the machine of the poet.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Machines, Language, Poet

• In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Latin, Book, Years

• It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Believe, Book, School

  "Writing to the moment" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2004.

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