Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the inter-war years, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 November 1904
ideas people long
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 flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.
should dear knows
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 is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
reading weather yesterday
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
adversity shields
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
effort united-states dollars
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
children moving black
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
doctors goes-on human-nature
English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
laughing making-love cry
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 happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?
lobster would-be green
A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.
wings people mind
And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
home writing paper
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
france trouble
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
children waffles able
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
poverty remember moments
there are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...