Rose Macaulay Quotes

Most popular Rose Macaulay Quotes

Love's a disease.  But curable. - Rose Macaulay quote.
Love's a disease.  But curable.
— Rose Macaulay Crewe Train

love

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures. - Rose Macaulay quote.
Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures.
— Rose Macaulay My World My Wilderness

parents

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. - Rose Macaulay quote.
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
— Rose Macaulay A Casual Commentary

asking questions

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there? - Rose Macaulay quote.
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
— Rose Macaulay Personal Pleasures
News is like food; it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself. - Rose Macaulay quote.
News is like food; it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
— Rose Macaulay A Casual Commentary

news

For that is what adultery is, a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. - Rose Macaulay quote.
For that is what adultery is, a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out.
— Rose Macaulay The Towers of Trebizond

infidelity

He desired to exaggerate.  And here we have what may be called a primary human need, which should be placed by psychologists with the desire for nourishment, for safety, for self-gratifications, and for appreciation, as one of the elemental lusts of man. - Rose Macaulay quote.
He desired to exaggerate.  And here we have what may be called a primary human need, which should be placed by psychologists with the desire for nourishment, for safety, for self-gratifications, and for appreciation, as one of the elemental lusts of man.
— Rose Macaulay Catchwords and Claptrap

exaggeration