You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…
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)
'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of...
I can tell you that if there’s nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to...
Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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...
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
How do you know when you're in love?' she said.'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.
It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due
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 intrus...
I think she’s too ignorant to be a witch.
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariab...
Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.
After nearly collapsing under the pressures of poverty, loneliness, and an addiction to Dexedrine, Spark sought help for her drug use and began to work seriously on a first novel, The Comforters (1957...
Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The d...
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