Rose MacaulayThinkers

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out.

Going abroad is always plagued by the recurrent question: is it worth the trouble of getting there.

Love is a curable disease.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

The Newspaper is a thing you should take up always believing all that you read in them. It makes them more interesting.

Religion is a primitive insurance against disaster.

Travel is such that one never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.