Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Iris Murdoch Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Jul 15, 1919
  • Died: Feb 8, 1999

Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. marriage

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. future

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. relationship

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. love

We can only learn to love by loving. love

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. nature

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. equality

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. happiness

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. women

Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 32 quotes from William Blake

32 quotes from William Blake

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. 6 sayings from Franz Grillparzer

6 sayings from Franz Grillparzer

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. 2 wisdom & wit from Storm Jameson

2 wisdom & wit from Storm Jameson

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

73 other quotes from Victor Hugo