"A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure,……" — Rose Macaulay
"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."
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29 Quotes by Rose Macaulay
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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our…
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time…
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their…
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at…
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it --…
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Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before…
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes…
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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can…
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