Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins

#Jealousy

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

#Death

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

#Evil, #Lies

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

#Jealousy

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

#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

Anything that consoles is fake.

#Iris Murdoch

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

#Iris Murdoch

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

#Iris Murdoch

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go...

#Iris Murdoch

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a...

#Iris Murdoch