Nancy Mitford Quotes
Collection of top 39 famous quotes about Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Nancy Mitford quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
— Nancy Mitford
Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.
— Nancy 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
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
— Nancy Mitford
Sun, silence, and happiness.
— 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
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
— Nancy Mitford
If one can't be happy, one must be amused ...
— 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
Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.
— Nancy Mitford
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
— Nancy Mitford
There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment ...
— Nancy 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
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
— Nancy Mitford
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
— 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
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
— Nancy Mitford
Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry
— Nancy Mitford
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
— Nancy Mitford
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
— 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
Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot.
— Nancy Mitford
It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ...
— Nancy Mitford
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
— Nancy 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