Quotes by Murdoch, Iris

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advant >>

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. >>

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until >>

Quotations about Happiness

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by wha >>

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existen >>

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all goo >>

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris