Muriel Spark
I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.Collection: Justice
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.Collection: Years
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.Collection: Smile
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.Collection: Being In Love
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.Collection: Dream
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.Collection: Rudeness
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.Collection: Jealousy
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.Collection: Running
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.Collection: Girl
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.Collection: Lying
Beware of men bearing flowers.Collection: Flower
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Mean
we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.Collection: Sex
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.Collection: Years
For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.Collection: Voice
It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.Collection: Beauty
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Mind
Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.Collection: People
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.Collection: Artist
New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.Collection: New York
The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)Collection: Girl
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.Collection: Lying
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.Collection: Men