Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins

#Jealousy

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

#Being Busy, #Happiness

We can only learn to love by loving.

#Love

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

#Death

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

#Luck, #Writing

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

#Evil, #Lies

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

#Jealousy

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

#Iris Murdoch

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

#Iris Murdoch

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

#Iris Murdoch

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

#Iris Murdoch

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than...

#Iris Murdoch