Quote

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

Muriel Spark

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
Biographer
Editor
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
Quiet
Sound
Voice
Keep
Reason
Work
Enjoyment
Silent

More quotes by Muriel Spark

Image
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
Muriel Spark
Image
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
Muriel Spark
Image
Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
Muriel Spark
Image
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
Muriel Spark
Image
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
Image
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
Muriel Spark
Image
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
Muriel Spark
Image
sooner or later I do what I want to do.
Muriel Spark
Image
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
Muriel Spark
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
Image
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
Muriel Spark
Image
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
Muriel Spark
Image
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
Muriel Spark
Image
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
Muriel Spark
Image
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
Muriel Spark
Image
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
Muriel Spark
Image
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark
Image
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
Muriel Spark
Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
Muriel Spark
Image
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark