The World My Wilderness Quotes

“I can't think, if people want gods, why not the Greek ones; they were so useful in emergencies, and such enterprising and entertaining companions. Capricious, of course, but helpful, unless one offended them. I don't know why paganism has so quite gone out in England.”
― Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness

“Yes grand' mere" The clear brown eyes flickered and blinked; he looked at once apprehensive and shifty. His grandmother reflected that he knew nothing yet of what his future was to be, he was in her hands, and for a moment she felt the gratification of the power she had never had over the silent, convent-bred girl, her son's wife.”
― Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness

“Let's see, what are those four footling freedoms we used to hear about - freedom to eat, freedom to speak, freedom to get about - what's the other? Freedom from fear, that's it. Well, who's going to have freedom from fear with those bleeding M.P.'s snooping round after him?”
― Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness

“So men's will to recovery strove against the drifting wilderness to halt and tame it; but the wilderness might slip from their hands”
― Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness