Muriel Spark Men Quotations

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

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

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

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.