Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL was a Scottish novelist. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 February 1918
rudeness euphemism frankness
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
heads la pupils putting
I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.
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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 logic nor chronology
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All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
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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 intrusion.
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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
birth english-novelist pity rather
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
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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 ...
beauty travel falling-in-love
It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.
virtue application
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
girl men want
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
girl giving age
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
flower believe men
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
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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.