Mentality Quote by Muriel Spark Download Open image “Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.” — Muriel Spark ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mentality People
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they… — Proust Marcel Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“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… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
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… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)” — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in this Dream… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
If you have the mentality that Jon Jones has when he steps into the cage, no one will beat you on the mat. — Corey Anderson Copy Share Image
If you look at the brands that I like, there are brands I like because of the clothes; then, there are brands I like… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image