"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."

“The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.”

“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" - "Miss Jean Brodie oma parimas eas", 1989”

“Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.”

“New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.”

“She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice of her content.”

“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”