All Jessica Mitford Quotes
- When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a… Conduct
- Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.' America
- I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. Bury
- Objectivity? I've always had an objective. Funny
- Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. American
- Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control. Completely
- One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or… Accident
- I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural… Always Supposed
- Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating. Art
- It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth. Childbirth
- Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing… Chilly
- You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. Able
- Objectivity? I always have an objective. Funny
- A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and… Age