Quotes by Muriel Spark

About Muriel Spark:

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark was a Scottish novelist. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'.
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Muriel Spark

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

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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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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absent touch of warm limbs at night, the absent

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameMuriel Spark
  • DescriptionScottish writer
  • AliasesMuriel Sarah Camberg
  • BornFebruary 1, 1918
  • DiedApril 13, 2006
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Playwright; Editor
  • WorksThe Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie; The Mandelbaum Gate; The Driver's Seat; Memento Mori; The Comforters; The Ballad Of Peckham Rye; The Bachelors; The Girls Of Slender Means; The Public Image; The Takeover; Territorial Rights; Loitering With Intent; A Far Cry From Kensington; Symposium; Aiding And Abetting; The Finishing School
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; James Tait Black Memorial Prize