Famous Quotes / Iris Murdoch
42 Quotations by Iris Murdoch
- 1. A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
- 2. A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little ...
- 3. All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
- 4. Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
- 5. Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
- 6. Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
- 7. Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
- 8. But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
- 9. Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
- 10. Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
- 11. Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- 12. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively an ...
- 13. He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths.
- 14. He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to g ...
- 15. Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
- 16. I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
- 17. I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take sec ...
- 18. In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon b ...
- 19. In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
- 20. Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.