Muriel Spark Quotes

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underne...

4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not qu...

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. T...

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal lo...

[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various sens...

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of imm...

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is ...

you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss wha...

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my ad...

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-wor...

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They ...

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture ...

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts ...

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with...

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary w...

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the s...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but...