Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
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
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
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…
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
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…
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there? - Rose Macaulay
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
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
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…
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict. - Rose Macaulay
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.
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
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 …
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. - Rose Macaulay
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. - Rose Macaulay
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
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