What did Iris Murdoch mean by: One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child’s despair. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Adults, Children, Despair, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Emotion, Literature, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Fabric, Subtle, Symbols, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Parting, Theatre, Tragic, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Jealous, Jealousy, Sin, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ To be a complete victim may be another source of power. Feraz Zeid, September 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Power, Victim, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Children, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Criticism, Important, Rain, 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
