Quotes By Iris Murdoch

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.