Cruel world Quotes by 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…

— Rose Macaulay

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

— Rose Macaulay

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

— Rose Macaulay

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do…

— Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

— Rose Macaulay

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent…

— 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…

— Rose Macaulay

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

— 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…

— Rose Macaulay

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

— Rose Macaulay

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?…

— Rose Macaulay

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the…

— Rose Macaulay

Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man…

— Rose Macaulay

Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be.…

— Rose Macaulay

“The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we…

— Rose Macaulay