Dame Rose Macaulay Famous Quotes



It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

"He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful."

"At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.


Dame Rose Macaulay Quotations






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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol