Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

There is only one Kishore Kumar, he was exceptional. No one can ever be like him.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less groveling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.

When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

There can never be another Kishore Kumar.

There will never be another Ronaldo 'Fenomeno.'