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Rose Macaulay

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“To the politician we are something of a dark horse. He does not know what we want; he wishes he did. Do we know ourselves? Vaguely we know that we don't want the politician.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Casual Commentary (1925), quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 483).
“Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, and afterwards no sign of where they went is to be found.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personal Pleasures (1935), quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 185).
“The trouble about the fashions is, there are too many going on at once, and you can't follow them all. Sometimes, I think I will give them all up, and just be dowdy.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personal Pleasures (1935), quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 247).
“How fast and how loud foreigners talk ! It is a gift ; the British cannot talk so loud or so fast. They have too many centuries of fog in their throats.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personal Pleasures (1935), quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 276).
“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personal Pleasures (1935). Quoted in "Words", in Rosalie Maggio (ed.), The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, 1996.
“Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Towers of Trebizond (1956), opening words
“Poem me no poems.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Poetry Review, Autumn 1963
“Each wrong act brings with it its own anaesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters to a friend, 1950-1952, edited by Constance Babington-Smith, 1961. Quoted in "Conscience", in Rosalie Maggio (ed.), The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, 1996.
“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. Another is lack of proportion, the obsession with one desire or one principle to the minimising or exclusion of others; exaggeration, in fact.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cranks", Woman's Suffrage: The Common Cause of Humanity, vol. 10, p. 132, June 28, 1918.
“Jane: What do you think of his book Arthur? Gideon: I don't think of it. I've had no reason to, particularly. I've not had to review it. ...I'm afraid I'm hopeless about novels just now, that's the fact. I'm sick of the form—slices of life served up cold in three hundred pages. Oh, it's very nice; it makes nice reading for people. But what's the use? Except, of course, to kill time for those who prefer it dead. But as things in themselves, as art, they've been ruined by excess. My critical sense is blunted just now. I can hardly feel the difference, though I can see it, between a good novel and a bad one. I couldn't write one, good or bad, to save my life, I know that. And I've got to the stage when I wish other people wouldn't. I wish everyone would shut up, so that we could hear ourselves think...”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Potterism (1921) p.196.