Quotes By Iris Murdoch

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

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

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

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.