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 then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers... — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever. — 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
