Muriel Spark Quotes (21 Quotes)

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

For people who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology

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

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

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

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

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a

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

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.