"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to …

- Brigid Brophy

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

- Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

- Brigid Brophy

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

- Brigid Brophy

The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonst…

- Brigid Brophy

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the ba…

- Brigid Brophy

To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish…

- Brigid Brophy

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slav…

- Brigid Brophy

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

- Brigid Brophy