Famous Muriel Spark Quotes

  • It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. – Muriel Spark

    It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.– Muriel Spark

  • Sandwiches,’ she said, ‘like diamonds, are forever. – Muriel Spark

    Sandwiches,’ she said, ‘like diamonds, are forever.– Muriel Spark

  • it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. – Muriel Spark

    it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.– Muriel Spark

  • Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. – Muriel Spark

    Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.– Muriel Spark

  • It’s only possible to betray where loyalty is due – Muriel Spark

    It’s only possible to betray where loyalty is due– Muriel Spark

  • I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God’s dreams. – Muriel Spark

    I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God’s dreams.– Muriel Spark

  • 4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours. – Muriel Spark

    4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.– Muriel Spark

  • Phrases like ‘the team spirit’ are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties. – Muriel Spark

    Phrases like ‘the team spirit’ are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.– Muriel Spark