Nancy Mitford Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak.
She ... ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter ...
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.
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.
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
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.
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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.
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
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.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
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
It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ...
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
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.