"It was a book to kill time for……" — Rose Macaulay

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

— Rose Macaulay

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29 Quotes by Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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