Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay DBEwas an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay’s novels were partly-influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 August 1881
passion law conflict
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.
political synthesis moral
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.
sacrifice self belief
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.
girlfriend wife goal
Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.
travel feels distaste
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
food fall taken
Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.
strong war hate
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
betrayal behavior revealing
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.
world
It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.
wells jolly publishers
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
fashion mean humanity
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
missing feelings may
miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
beautiful church littles
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.
travel people together
Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.