John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6141 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6141 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,—a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830. |