To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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...
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone.
I think she’s too ignorant to be a witch.
I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and...
When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
You girls, said Miss Brodie, must learn tocultivate an expression of composure. It is one of the best assets of a woman, an expression of composure, come foul, come fair. Regard the Mona Lisa over yon...
You will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy.
However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy.
I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.
Her lips are slightly parted: she, whose lips are usually pressed together with the daily disapprovals of the accountants' office where she has worked continually, except for the months of illness, si...
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...
[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]
For those who like that sort of thing, said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, That is the sort of thing they like.
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al día las siguientes frases:
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