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.
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…
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 …
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.
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?
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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