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 your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#elusive #full #grow #grow up #life

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#children #coping #learn #life #lot

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#only #out #psychiatrist #see #should

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#girl #give #give me #la #life

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #great #importance #lastly #life

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#life #may #occur #prime #recognize

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

— Muriel Spark

#enjoyment #i #i see #keep #my own