The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road? — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is ‘White Fang.’ It’s so frightfully good I’ve never… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
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,… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Women are divided into two categories: those who can deal with the men they are in love with, and those who cannot. Sophia was… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
