A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Rose Macaulay, (Aug 1 1881-1958), English novelist, writer; Her novels and travel books are characterized by intelligence, wit, and lively scholarship.