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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
Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
— Jessica 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
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
— Jessica Mitford
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
— Jessica Mitford
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
— Jessica Mitford
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
— Jessica Mitford
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
— Jessica Mitford
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...
— Mary Russell 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
I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.
— Jessica Mitford
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
— Nancy Mitford
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
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
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
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
— Nancy Mitford
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
— Nancy Mitford
Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.
— Nancy Mitford
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
— Nancy Mitford
Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...
— Jessica Mitford
There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment ...
— Nancy Mitford
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
— Nancy Mitford
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.
— Nancy Mitford
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
— Jessica Mitford
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
— Nancy Mitford
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
If one can't be happy, one must be amused ...
— Nancy Mitford
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
— Nancy Mitford
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
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
— Nancy 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
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
[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
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
— 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
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
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
— 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
There is no running away from a great grief.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Go, and be as the butterfly
— Jan Karon
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
— Jessica Mitford
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.
— Nancy Mitford
The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
— Jessica Mitford
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
— Nancy Mitford
It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ...
— Nancy 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
Sun, silence, and happiness.
— Nancy Mitford
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
— Jessica 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
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
Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot.
— Nancy Mitford
Fashion is a capricious deity ...
— Mary Russell Mitford