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Quotes from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark

1918–2006 Scotland

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

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crème de la crème."

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Muriel Spark (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.