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Rose Macaulay quotes: Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal ... unless she's really attractive.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal ... unless she's really attractive.

Rose Macaulay quotes: The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Rose Macaulay quotes: He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about playscynical but hopeful.

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Rose Macaulay quotes: When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

Rose Macaulay quotes: It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rose Macaulay quotes: 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.

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 quotes: To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

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 quotes: The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

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 quotes: It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Rose Macaulay quotes: The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

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 quotes: God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Rose Macaulay quotes: To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

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 quotes: One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Human passions against eternal laws that is the everlasting conflict.

Human passions against eternal laws
that is the everlasting conflict.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Rose Macaulay quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

Rose Macaulay quotes: News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Rose Macaulay quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Rose Macaulay quotes: At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Love's a disease. But curable.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay quotes: You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Rose Macaulay quotes: The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

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 quotes: Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Rose Macaulay quotes: The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Rose Macaulay quotes: One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Rose Macaulay quotes: Nearly all novels are too long.

Nearly all novels are too long.