For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, “That is the sort of thing they like.
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.
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God’s dreams.
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 absent touch of warm limbs at night, the absent
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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)
Sandwiches,’ she said, ‘like diamonds, are forever.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Saving and pinching to get married, you’re losing the best time of your life.
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.
It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.