John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6140 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6140 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830. |