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
time
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
women philosophy talking
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
morning book sleep
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
travel trouble
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
succeed courses
God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.
ambition lunch goal
To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
light years sometimes
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
dream past men
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.
music tea different
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.
lying people lasts
The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.
writing thinking answers
I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.
food felt
When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.
freedom thinking people
There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.
giving interesting doubt
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.