Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share
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
No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share
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
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share
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
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
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
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share
I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share
