Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL was a Scottish novelist. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 February 1918
english-novelist la mine pupils
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
heads la pupils putting
I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.
funny humor laughing
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.
laughter laughing people
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
want assertiveness sooner-or-later
sooner or later I do what I want to do.
education english-novelist leading miss putting
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
alert english-novelist life prime recognize time whatever
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
birth english-novelist pity rather
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
attempting eyes grasp logic neither nor order sat since thoughts
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
technology men medicine
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.
friendship two trusted-friends
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
perseverance winning victory
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
romantic-love doe impossible
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
tyrants revolution chance
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.