Source: The Informed Air: Essays
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Famous Muriel Spark Quotes
Source: Robinson
“You look for one thing and you find another.”
Source: Memento Mori
“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.”
Source: Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
“Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.”
“Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel
“Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.”
Source: The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.”
Source: Loitering with Intent
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Source: The Abbess of Crewe
Source: The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Source: The Informed Air: Essays
“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”
Source: The Driver's Seat
Source: Memento Mori
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.”
“I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.”
Source: Not to Disturb
“Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great”
Source: Memento Mori
Source: Loitering with Intent
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
Source: Aiding and Abetting: A Novel
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
“The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.”
Source: Loitering with Intent
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
Source: Territorial Rights: A Novel
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”
Source: The Mandelbaum Gate: A Novel
“One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.”
Source: Doctors of Philosophy: A Play
“How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.”
Source: Loitering with Intent
“Beware of men bearing flowers.”
Source: Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
“Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.”
Source: Loitering with Intent
Source: Memento Mori
Source: The novels of Muriel Spark
“I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.”
Source: Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography