Nancy Mitford Quotes

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• The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
• If one can't be happy, one must be amused....
• The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.
• One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a…
• Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages…
• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,
• And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
• An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in…
• I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
• I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
• Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
• I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
• 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 I'm…
• always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of…
• Sun, silence, and happiness.
• Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend,…
• 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 a…
• If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting…
• Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What…

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