“Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.'They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'.'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me.”

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”

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

“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.”

“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”

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

“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”

“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.”

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”