"I do love translating; it is the pure……" — Nancy Mitford
"I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing."
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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 am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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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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More Inventing Quotes
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
— Joseph Barbera
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is…
— John le Carre
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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
— Donald Sadoway
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
— Lewis Mumford
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I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend…
— Christiaan Barnard
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The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis…
— Karl Popper
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
— Dan Barker
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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We…
— C.S. Lewis
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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round…
— Unknown Author
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We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new…
— George W. Bush
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The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of…
— Francois Jacob
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Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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