Muriel Spark Quotes

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. - Muriel Spark

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other 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. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. - Muriel Spark

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

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

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. - Muriel Spark

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme. - Muriel Spark

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology. - Muriel Spark

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. - Muriel Spark

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. - Muriel Spark

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. - Muriel Spark

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