Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Muriel Spark - Page 2

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

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.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

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

Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.

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)

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

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

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

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

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

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

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.