Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
A work of art is like living people.
This deadly body of mine can dance, too.
One's prime is the moment one was born for.
Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' said...
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
—Oye, Jane, deberías cobrarles la cantidad de tiempo libre que le dedicas a ese trabajo.—El mundo de los libros es ante todo altruista —decía Jane.Siempre se refería al negocio de la edición como el m...
For those who like that sort of thing, said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, That is the sort of thing they like.
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...
Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to...
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
The more religious people are, the more perplexing I find them.
Prime.
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intens...
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