Rose Macaulay Quotes

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.

When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.

I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because...." "Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

We may not always finish what we start but God always finishes what He starts.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.