Rose Macaulay

English writer

Lived from: 1881-1958

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Quotes: Rose Macaulay

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: 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.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
Dame Rose Macaulay

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
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Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
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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.
Source: A casual commentary
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Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
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You should always believe all you read in newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.