"Children should be like waffles--you should be able……" — Nancy Mitford
"Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away."
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Nancy Mitford
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31 Quotes by Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford has 31 quotes on this site.
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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If one can't be happy, one must be amused....
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The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.
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One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place.…
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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and…
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so…
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in…
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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