"Growing up in the English countryside seemed an……" — Jessica Mitford
"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 ever, ever happened."
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14 Quotes by Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford has 14 quotes on this site.
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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch,…
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
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One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just…
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I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are…
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Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.
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It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
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Objectivity? I always have an objective.
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More Chilly Quotes
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one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are…
— James M. Barrie
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ...…
— Caitlin Moran
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The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London…
— Kathleen Quinlan
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I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have…
— Thomas Kinkade
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Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the…
— Harry Graham
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I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming…
— Charlotte Bronte
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One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk,…
— George Gissing
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Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer…
— Roger Angell
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Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls…
— Richard K. Morgan
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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on…
— George F. Kennan
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Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.
— David Bowie
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