Iris Murdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the…

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed…

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

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship…

One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance…

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is…

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy…

We can only learn to love by loving…

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

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

The cry of equality pulls everyone down…