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Nancy Mitford quotes: Children should be like wafflesyou should be able to throw the first one away. Children should be like waffles
you should be able to throw the first one away.
Nancy Mitford quotes: When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home. When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now. Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather. Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
Nancy Mitford quotes: Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak. Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak.
Nancy Mitford quotes: She ... ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter ... She ... ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were. Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... ! Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
Nancy Mitford quotes: In France that is the one rule, never make trouble. In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
Nancy Mitford quotes: I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life. I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Sun, silence, and happiness. Sun, silence, and happiness.
Nancy Mitford quotes: English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature. English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
Nancy Mitford quotes: There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ... There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: If one can't be happy, one must be amused ... If one can't be happy, one must be amused ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road? People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
Nancy Mitford quotes: Women are divided into two categories: those who can deal with the men they are in love with, and those who cannot. Sophia was one of those who can. Women are divided into two categories: those who can deal with the men they are in love with, and those who cannot. Sophia was one of those who can.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work. Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.
Nancy Mitford quotes: The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford quotes: There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment ... There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ... Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Nancy Mitford quotes: To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford quotes: The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.
Nancy Mitford quotes: I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry
Nancy Mitford quotes: My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another. My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ... Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
Nancy Mitford quotes: Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity. Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot. Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot.
Nancy Mitford quotes: I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford quotes: It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ... It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ...
Nancy Mitford quotes: Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered. Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
Nancy Mitford quotes: Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me. Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me.

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