John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6151 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6151 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Frederic the Great. 1842. |