What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Description, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Civilisation, Truth, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues. Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Love, Secret, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Happiness, Innocent, Insult, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The most interesting things are always happening behind one. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 24, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Behinds, Happenings, Interesting, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Failure, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Church, Human, Meetings, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ evil soon makes tools out of those who don’t hate it. Feraz Zeid, July 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Evil, Hate, Tools, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain - Frederick Lenz Philosopher · USA
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France