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,…

- Rose Macaulay

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest…

- Rose Macaulay

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be…

- Rose Macaulay

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a ba…

- Rose Macaulay

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

- Rose Macaulay

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

- Rose Macaulay

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this …

- Rose Macaulay

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

- Rose Macaulay

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

- Rose Macaulay