"Miss Brodie says that anyone of a cultured home and heritage...makes no fuss about the human body."
― Muriel Spark,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
― Muriel Spark,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
― Muriel Spark,
Memento Mori
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another 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.
― Muriel Spark,
Memento Mori
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
― Muriel Spark,
Aiding and Abetting
It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
― Muriel Spark,
The Girls of Slender Means
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
― Muriel Spark
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
― Muriel Spark
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.
― Muriel Spark,
Loitering With Intent
"Teddy Lloyd: [to Sandy] You're a clever little cat, aren't you?"
― Muriel Spark,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"Who opened the window? Whoever opened the window has opened it too wide. It is okay to leave open a window perhaps six inches precisely as to do any more than that might just be in vulgar taste"
― Muriel Spark,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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