Macaulay

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

—Melbourne,William Lamb, 2nd Viscount

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

—Prial, FrankJ

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.

—Barrymore, Ethel

The great apostle of the Philistine, Lord Macaulay.

—Arnold, Matthew

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