Quotes from Rose Macaulay

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

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

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.