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Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal ... unless she's really attractive.
— Rose Macaulay
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful. — Rose Macaulay
cynical but hopeful. — Rose Macaulay
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
— Rose Macaulay
When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.
— Rose Macaulay
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
— Rose Macaulay
To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind.
— Rose Macaulay
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
— Rose Macaulay
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
— Rose Macaulay
The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.
— Rose Macaulay
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.
— Rose Macaulay
The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.
— Rose Macaulay
To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
— Rose Macaulay
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
— Rose Macaulay
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.
— Rose Macaulay
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
— Rose Macaulay
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.
— Rose Macaulay
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.
— Rose Macaulay
Miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
— Rose Macaulay
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
— Rose Macaulay
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
— Rose Macaulay
I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.
— Rose Macaulay
One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
— Rose Macaulay
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
— Rose Macaulay
Love's a disease. But curable.
— Rose Macaulay
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
— Rose Macaulay
The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.
— Rose Macaulay
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
— Rose Macaulay
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
— Rose Macaulay
Nearly all novels are too long.
— Rose Macaulay