Rose Macaulay Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Book, Aging

• Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Morning, Book

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

• One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Years, Done

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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