Iris Murdoch was a famous Author from Ireland, who lived between July 15, 1919 and February 8, 1999. He/she became 79 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 32 quotes who is written / told by Iris, under the main topic Equality.
32 Famous quotes by Iris Murdoch
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all"
"The cry of equality pulls everyone down"
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream"
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions"
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way"
"Anything that consoles is fake"
"We can only learn to love by loving"
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries"
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us"
"Only lies and evil come from letting people off"
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out"
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods"
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self"
"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base"
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same"
"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped"
"Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously"
"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes"
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous"
"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference"
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real"
"I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore"
"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph"
"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia"
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck"
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"
"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance"
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic"
"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is"
"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art"
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out"
"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end"
