Muriel Spark Quotes
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
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.
4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
For those who like that sort of thing, " said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.