If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance o…

- Muriel Spark

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

- Muriel Spark

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

- Muriel Spark

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

- Muriel Spark

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 w…

- Muriel Spark

Beware the ire of the calm.

- Muriel Spark

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

- Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

- Muriel Spark

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

- Muriel Spark