Iris Murdoch
  • The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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

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

  • We can only learn to love by loving.

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