Sydney Smith Quote

Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.


Volume I, ch. 11. - Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)


Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.