Quotes by : Muriel Spark

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

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.....

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work,....

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

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women....

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite....

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

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