It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. - 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
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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
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…
Beware the ire of the calm. - Muriel Spark
Beware the ire of the calm.
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
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…
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. - Muriel Spark
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. - Muriel Spark
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. - Muriel Spark
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. - Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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