Quotes By Iris Murdoch

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

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Anything that consoles is fake.

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.