There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.'… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past, Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, just in time, I realised that he was a filthy Hun, so of course I turned my back on him and… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever… — 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
