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  • Novelist
  • 1918 - 2006
  • 76 quotes

Muriel Spark, a novelist (1918 - 2006), is quoted 76 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Men, Age, Years and Girl.

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Beware the ire of the calm.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

You look for one thing and you find another.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

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

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

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

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

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

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

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

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

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

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

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

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

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

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

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

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

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

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

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

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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