109 Quotes by Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Nearly all novels are too long.

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.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

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