150 Quotes by Muriel Spark

Being dead’s a drug’, he says, ’you’ll get hooked on it.

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

Remember you must die.

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.

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 of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,′ Miss Brodie had told them at the time.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God’s dreams.

She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one’s capacity for forming true ones.

4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.