Sandy felt warmly towards Miss Brodie at these times when she saw how she was misled in her idea of Rose. It was then that Miss Brodie looked beautiful and fragile, just as dark heavy Edinburgh itself...
One's prime is the moment one was born for.
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
But those of Miss Brodie's kind were great talkers and feminists and, like most feminists, talked to men as man‐to‐man.
At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.
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...
They are demanding equal rights with us,’ says Mrs. Fiedke. ‘That’s why I never vote with the Liberals. Perfume, jewellery, hair down to their shoulders, and I’m not talking about the ones who were bo...
Sex is all right he saysIt’s all right at the time, and it’s all right before says Lise, but the problem is afterwards. That is, if you’re not an animal. Most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn’t think of discarding them just because...
I'm not saying anything against the Modern side.Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical ...
It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed.
It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender’s war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – bu...
If anyone comes along, said Miss Brodie, in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I...
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...
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and...