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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

[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