A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr.… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
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