Rose Macaulay Quotes
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.
Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing
"The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.
Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.5, A&C Black
It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.
Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”
Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.101, A&C Black
Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black
Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”
Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”
Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1940). “And No Man's Wit”