Memorable Quotes and quotations from Dame Rose Macaulay

Dame Rose Macaulay English novelist (1881 - 1958)


Dame Rose Macaulay -
- It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay -
- It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Dame Rose Macaulay - Crewe Train, 1926
- He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.

Dame Rose Macaulay -
- At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.