Awake Quote by Muriel Spark

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

“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

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

— Muriel Spark

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

— 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

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

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

“It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due”

— Muriel Spark

“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

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

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

— 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