Muriel Spark Quotes

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. - Muriel Spark

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. - Muriel Spark

Time is a river without banks. - Muriel Spark

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

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. - Muriel Spark

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. - Muriel Spark

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life! - Muriel Spark

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. - Muriel Spark

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

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

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