Loitering With Intent Quotes

“He sincerely believed that talent, although not equally distributed by nature, could be later conferred by a title or acquired by inherited rank.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent

“I suspect he really believed that the Wedgwood cup from which he daintily sipped his tea derived its value from the fact that the social system had recognized the Wedgwood family, not from the china that they had exerted themselves to make.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent