Muriel Spark quotes
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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.
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 dirty sky.
All my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
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.
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
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 impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
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.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.