Diction Quotes by Mary Russell Mitford

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

— Mary Russell Mitford

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

— Mary Russell Mitford

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

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

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

— Mary Russell Mitford