Rose Macaulay

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts their little passions and hopes and desires all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this animated but collateral.

A preoccupied family they none of them threw themselves into the interests of the rest but each ploughed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts their little passions and hopes and desires all ran along separate lines. Family life is like thisanimated but collateral.

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

At worst a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

We know one anothers faults virtues catastrophes mortifications triumphs rivalries desires and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

Love's a disease. But curable.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

To lunch with the important that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

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

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

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

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.