[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...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.
The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.
O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.
On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother’s voice below.‘I’ll have a large wholemeal. I’ve got my grandson stopping for a week, who’s on the BBC. That’s my daughter...
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...
I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.
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...
Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...