Muriel Spark Quotes - Page 3

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

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's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

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

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

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

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

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

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

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.