Frasi di Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark è stata una scrittrice scozzese.

✵ 1. Febbraio 1918 – 13. Aprile 2006   •   Altri nomi موریل اسپارک
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Muriel Spark: Frasi in inglese

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

Muriel Spark libro The Comforters

The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 133

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”

Muriel Spark libro Aiding and Abetting

Origine: Aiding and Abetting

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

Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Origine: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”

Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Origine: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Origine: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”

Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Variante: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Origine: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 92

“The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.”

Muriel Spark libro The Comforters

The Comforters (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957) p. 28

“I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crème de la crème.”

Muriel Spark libro The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Origine: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 5

“She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice of her content.”

Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975), vol. 1, p. 333.
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