Nancy Mitford Quotes

• I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

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  Bored, People, Sometimes

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

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  Thinking, Hunting, Eggs

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.109, Vintage

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• If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

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  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Amused

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• La gran ventaja de vivir en una familia numerosa es esa temprana lección de la injusticia esencial de la vida.

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  Family, Life Lesson, Being Thankful

  The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

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

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  Love, Fall, Advice

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

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  Adversity, Shields

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• 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.

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  Running, Cutting, Luck

  'Noblesse Oblige' (1956) 'The English Aristocracy'

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• What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

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  Life, Children, Nice

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

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  Girl, Interesting, Heaven

  Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.126, Vintage

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• The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

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  Party, Gay, Wings

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• Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

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  Dream, Dresses, Dinner

  Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.192, Vintage

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

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  Cake, Dull, Sometimes

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.182, Vintage

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• the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

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  Running, Baby, Food

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• When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

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  Home, Writing, Paper

  1949 Love in a Cold Climate, pt.2, ch.2.

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• One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

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  Paris, Joy, Unhappy

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.146, Vintage

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• There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

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  Poverty, Remember, Moments

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• The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

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  Cynical, Lord

  "Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy".

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• París por la mañana temprano tiene un aspecto alegre y bullicioso, una promesa de cosas deliciosas por venir, un olor positivo a café y croissants, bastante peculiar en sí mismo. La gente da la bienvenida a un nuevo día como si estuviera segura de que le va a gustar, los comerciantes suben sus persianas serenos a la espera de un buen comercio, los trabajadores van felices a su trabajo, la gente que ha estado sentada toda la noche en los clubes nocturnos va feliz a su descanso, la orquesta de bocinas de automóviles, de tranvías tintineantes, de policías silbantes afina para la sinfonía diaria, y en todas partes hay alegría.

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  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• Sun, silence, and happiness.

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  Silence, Sun

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.182, Vintage

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• ¿Seguramente un Rey que ama el placer es menos peligroso que uno que ama la gloria?

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  Kings, Royalty, Glory

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

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  Effort, United States, Dollars

  Nancy Mitford, Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1956). “Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy”, Hamish Hamilton

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• But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

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  Mother, Thinking, Great Love

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.214, Vintage

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• I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

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  Love, Children, Memorable

  Nancy Mitford (2011). “The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

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  Children, Waffles, Able

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• The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

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  Believe, People, Unhappy

  "Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie".

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