Rose Macaulay Quotes

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

I hate puppets so much. I dream about puppets all night. I see strings on people. The nice thing is we can just take a puppet and put it in front of a wall and blow the shit out of it.

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.