Quotes from Muriel Spark

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

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

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

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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 live it to the full.

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

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

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

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.