Rose Macaulay Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

• They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

  Rose Macaulay

  Family, Passion, Life Is Like

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1928). “Daisy & Daphne”

• Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

  Rose Macaulay

  Children, Thinking, Nuts

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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