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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

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. — Jessica Mitford

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing. — Jessica Mitford

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

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

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

Fashion is a capricious deity ... — Mary Russell Mitford

Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity. — Nancy Mitford

Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot. — Nancy Mitford

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees. — Jessica Mitford

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. — Nancy Mitford

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

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles? — Jessica Mitford

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

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

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

It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ... — Nancy Mitford

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

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

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

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ... — Nancy Mitford

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ... — Nancy Mitford

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

Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry — Nancy Mitford

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. — Nancy Mitford

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

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. — Nancy Mitford

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. — Nancy Mitford

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. — Nancy Mitford

Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends. — Jessica Mitford

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

Objectivity? I always have an objective. — Jessica Mitford

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford