Mary Russell Mitford quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Mary Russell Mitford on Wise Famous Quotes.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ...

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ...

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: There is no running away from a great grief.

There is no running away from a great grief.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Fashion is a capricious deity ...

Fashion is a capricious deity ...

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

Mary Russell Mitford quotes: Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...