Rose Macaulay Quotes

Take My Camel, Dear,' Said My Aunt Dot, Climbing Down From That Animal On Her Return From High Mass.

One Could Do With A Longer Year - So Much To Do, So Little Done, Alas.

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.

Behavior Of Such Cunning Cruelty That Only A Human Being Could Have Thought Of Or Contrived It We Call 'inhuman,' Revealing Thus Some Pathetic Ideal Standard For Our Species That Survives All Betrayals.

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.

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.

When I Have Eaten Mangoes, I Have Felt Like Eve.

Giving Is Not At All Interesting; But Receiving Is, There Is No Doubt About It, Delightful.

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.

The Last Sin, The Sin Against The Holy Ghost - To Lie To Oneself. Lying To Other People - That's A Small Thing In Comparison.

Why Is Humanity So Excessive In The Way It Does Things? The Golden Mean Seems Out Of Fashion.

Mozart Is Everyone's Tea, Pleasing To Highbrows, Middlebrows And Lowbrows Alike, Though They Probably All Get Different Kinds Of Pleasure From Him.