Common Quotes by Jessica Mitford

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a…

— Jessica Mitford

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is…

— Jessica Mitford

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

— Jessica Mitford

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

— Jessica Mitford

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what…

— Jessica Mitford

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from…

— Jessica Mitford

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

— Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

— Jessica Mitford

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune…

— Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

— Jessica Mitford

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may…

— Jessica Mitford

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it…

— Jessica Mitford