"For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like."
- Muriel Spark
"If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice whic..."
"If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariab..."
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."
"The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."
"Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties."
"4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours."
"Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The d..."
"I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams."
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"