Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
Rose MacaulayWhy is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
Rose MacaulaySleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
Rose MacaulayAge has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
Rose MacaulayAs 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. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?
Rose Macaulay