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Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!
— Mary Russell Mitford
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
Staying on the path of who you are and not trying to be anyone else is the key to anything you're doing.
— Jimi Westbrook
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.
— Mary Russell Mitford
War is a racket. The few profit, the many pay.
— Noam Chomsky
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
— Mary Russell Mitford
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
— Maria Montessori
Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.
— Anthony Horowitz
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
She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
— Vladimir Nabokov
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
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
We are the masters of our fate.
— Winston S. Churchill
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
— Mary Russell Mitford
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
— 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
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
— Mary Russell Mitford
There is no running away from a great grief.
— Mary Russell Mitford
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
— Mary Russell Mitford
That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Fashion is a capricious deity ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
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[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...
— Mary Russell Mitford