Muriel Spark Famous Quotes
"All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
"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 live it to the full."
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark Quotations
"The Whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told"
Nez Perces
"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
Willa Sibert Cather
"Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save."
John Gay
"Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign."
Christina Georgina Rossetti
"Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world."
Henry Drummond
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
Mignon McLaughlin
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W Somerset Maugham
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop