150 Quotes by 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.

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

If you don’t remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can’t cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.

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

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

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.

He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and who is at last alone.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great.

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people’s mentalities...