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

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

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

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. — Muriel Spark

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years. — Muriel Spark

We have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing. — Muriel Spark

Never apologise, never explain. — Muriel Spark

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. — Muriel Spark

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts. — Muriel Spark

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... — Muriel Spark

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. — Muriel Spark

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that. — Muriel Spark

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

Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford. — Muriel Spark

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

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

You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates. — Muriel Spark

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time. — Muriel Spark

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends. — Muriel Spark

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice. — Muriel Spark

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. — Muriel Spark

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great — Muriel Spark

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

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first — Muriel Spark

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ... — Muriel Spark

Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority. — Muriel Spark

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark

A work of art is like living people. — Muriel Spark

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties. — Muriel Spark

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer. — Muriel Spark

Remember you must die. — Muriel Spark

[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...] — Muriel Spark

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. — Muriel Spark

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward. — Muriel Spark

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever. — Muriel Spark

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. — Muriel Spark

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence. — Muriel Spark

How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low. — Muriel Spark

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

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

To put it squarely, as I say in my memoir, the eternal triangle has come full circle. — Muriel Spark

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. — Muriel Spark

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing. — Muriel Spark

Beware of men bearing flowers. — Muriel Spark

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers. — Muriel Spark

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth. — Muriel Spark

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, — Muriel Spark

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. — Muriel Spark

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness. — Muriel Spark

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. — Muriel Spark

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. — Muriel Spark

But you won't be able to pin her down on sex. Have you thought of politics? — Muriel Spark

Beware the ire of the calm. — Muriel Spark

She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones. — Muriel Spark

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. — Muriel Spark

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

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure. — Muriel Spark

Remember you must live.
remember you most love.
remainder you mist leaf. — Ali Smith

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. — Muriel Spark

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. — Muriel Spark

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. — Muriel Spark

Sooner or later I do what I want to do. — Muriel Spark

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

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion. — Muriel Spark

It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. — Muriel Spark

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark

At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination. — Muriel Spark

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. — Muriel Spark

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

You look for one thing and you find another. — Muriel Spark