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Rose Macaulay Quote: “The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost – to lie to oneself. Lying to other people – that’s a small thing in comparison.”

51. “The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost – to lie to oneself. Lying to other people – that’s a small thing in comparison.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.”

52. “God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Nearly all novels are too long.”

53. “Nearly all novels are too long.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.”

54. “Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.”

56. “Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.”

57. “The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “One never feels such distaste for one’s countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.”

58. “One never feels such distaste for one’s countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Really, there’s hardly anything to say about anything. I mean, you could say it all, all that mattered, in a few sentences.”

59. “Really, there’s hardly anything to say about anything. I mean, you could say it all, all that mattered, in a few sentences.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.”

60. “Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “I thought how the Church was meant to be a shrine of the decenies, of friendship, integrity, love of the poetry of conduct, of the flickering, guttering candles of conscience.”

61. “I thought how the Church was meant to be a shrine of the decenies, of friendship, integrity, love of the poetry of conduct, of the flickering, guttering candles of conscience.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Travelling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons.”

62. “Travelling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Rain began, as it does in central and northern France. The skies were overcast; the south lay behind. The people at the stations were no longer Latins, happy and idle, but Gauls, worried and industrious, the world’s busiest workers, thriftiest savers, hardest haters, and best bureaucrats. Their talk was sharp and quick; they would stand no nonsense; one could imagine that it was they who had first conceived passports, to prevent the world’s denizens from moving about their planet as they chose.”

63. “Rain began, as it does in central and northern France. The skies were overcast; the south lay behind. The people at the stations were no longer Latins, happy and idle, but Gauls, worried and industrious, the world’s busiest workers, thriftiest savers, hardest haters, and best bureaucrats. Their talk was sharp and quick; they would stand no nonsense; one could imagine that it was they who had first conceived passports, to prevent the world’s denizens from moving about their planet as they chose.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Denham looked at her aunt in speculative surprise. Funny, knowing a person for over a year and still thinking she couldn’t let the sink get messy and discoloured.”

64. “Denham looked at her aunt in speculative surprise. Funny, knowing a person for over a year and still thinking she couldn’t let the sink get messy and discoloured.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Every war makes other wars more likely.”

65. “Every war makes other wars more likely.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Still the towers of Trebizond, the fabled city, shimmer on a far horizon, gated and walled and held in a luminous enchantment. It seems that for me, and however much I must stand outside them, this must for ever be. But at the city’s heart lie the pattern and the hard core, and these I can never make my own: they are too far outside my range. The pattern should perhaps be easier, the core less hard. This seems, indeed, the eternal dilemma.”

66. “Still the towers of Trebizond, the fabled city, shimmer on a far horizon, gated and walled and held in a luminous enchantment. It seems that for me, and however much I must stand outside them, this must for ever be. But at the city’s heart lie the pattern and the hard core, and these I can never make my own: they are too far outside my range. The pattern should perhaps be easier, the core less hard. This seems, indeed, the eternal dilemma.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “Father Chantry-Pigg thought it would be wrong to go to Russia, because of condoning the government, which was persecuting Christians. But aunt Dot said if one started not condoning governments, one would have to give up travel altogether, and even remaining in Britain would be pretty difficult.”

67. “Father Chantry-Pigg thought it would be wrong to go to Russia, because of condoning the government, which was persecuting Christians. But aunt Dot said if one started not condoning governments, one would have to give up travel altogether, and even remaining in Britain would be pretty difficult.”

— Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay Quote: “I spent the nine days’ voyage partly sketching my Turkish fellow passengers, and partly trying to learn Turkish, and after a time I was able to say, “I would like a shoe-horn,” and “See how badly you have ironed my coat, you must do it again.” Father Chantry-Pigg said this phrase book was little use, as it had no sentences about the Church being better than Islam...”

68. “I spent the nine days’ voyage partly sketching my Turkish fellow passengers, and partly trying to learn Turkish, and after a time I was able to say, “I would like a shoe-horn,” and “See how badly you have ironed my coat, you must do it again.” Father Chantry-Pigg said this phrase book was little use, as it had no sentences about the Church being better than Islam...”

— Rose Macaulay

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