"Things on the whole are much faster in……" — Jessica Mitford
"Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'"
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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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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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Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn…
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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 America Quotes
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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