Quotes by Murdoch, Iris

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anyth >>

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with j >>

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

Quotations about Moralists

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to the >>

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes >>

Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of moralit >>

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Murdoch, Iris