# The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

- Author: [Muriel Spark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/muriel-spark.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/muriel-spark/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie

## Quotes

> It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/muriel-spark/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/it-is-impossible.md)

> "I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crème de la crème."

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/muriel-spark/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/i-am-putting.md)

> One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/muriel-spark/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/ones-prime-is-elusive.md)

> To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/muriel-spark/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie/to-me-education.md)