35 quotes found
“It'sonlypossibletobetraywhereloyaltyisdue”
“It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due”
“Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.”
“Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.”
“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 w...”
“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.”
“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 invar...”
“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. Th...”
“you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absen...”
“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.”
“I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.”
“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)”
“It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon...”
“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”
“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”
“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, c...”
“Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.”
“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”
