Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
“There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.”
On the expenses scandal in the UK. <br class="br">Quoted in Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12560.html <br class="br">This is a variation on a line from Lord Macaulay's 'On Moore's Life of Lord Byron' (1830): 'We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.' <br class="br">2000s
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