Saving and pinching to get married, you’re losing the best time of your life.

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 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)

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

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

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...

Godfrey’s wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither...

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

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God’s dreams.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really...

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Sandwiches,’ she said, ‘like diamonds, are forever.

I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice...

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders…all my pupils are the creme de la creme.

For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, “That is the sort of thing they like.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

Godfrey’s wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

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