Rose Macaulay Quotes - Page 3

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• If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

  Rose Macaulay

  Winning, Suggestions, Language

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

  Rose Macaulay

  Animal, Aunt, Climbing

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• Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sleep, Choices, Bed

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Love's a disease. But curable.

  Rose Macaulay

  Disease

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• Nearly all novels are too long.

  Rose Macaulay

  Long, Literature, Novel

  Rose Macaulay (1921). “Potterism”

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• 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.

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  Swimming, Actors, Elements

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

  Rose Macaulay

  Hate, Heart, Breathing

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.42, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Children, Thinking, Giving

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

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  Time, Years, Done

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, England, Born

  1926 Crewe Train, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

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  Reading, Doe, Fiction

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

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  Food, Felt

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.73, A&C Black

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• I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

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  Writing, Thinking, Tables

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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

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  Time, Book, Aging

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• 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.

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  Political, Synthesis, Moral

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• As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

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  Religious, Firsts, Groups

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• Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

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  Thinking, Water, Important

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

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  May, Pigeons, Return

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

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  Relationship, Men, Hands

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• 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.

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  Children, Thinking, Nuts

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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

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  Civilization, Mind, Wells

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

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  Beautiful, Church, Littles

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• 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

  Missing, Feelings, May

  Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.280, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

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  Civilization, Long, Achievement

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