150 Quotes by Muriel Spark

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

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

Arrogance is incurable.

Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.

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

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said Sandy.'Yes,' said Miss Brodie, 'you're right. Rose has got a future by virtue of her instinct.'...'I ought to know because my prime has brought me instinct and insight, both.

Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.

There was a wonderful sunset across the distant sky, reflected in the sea, streaked with blood and puffed with avenging purple and gold as if the end of the world had come without intruding on every-day life.