Muriel Spark Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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 advice to everyone except Parisians.
How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.