Nancy Mitford Quotes

• When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it’s always a bad sign, at home.

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• ‘Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry’ is an aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

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• Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

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• Aunt Sadie…so much disliked hearing about health that people often took her for a Christian Scientist, which, indeed, she might have become had she not disliked hearing about religion even more.

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• Like all the very young we took it for granted that making love is child’s play.

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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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• Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

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• An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead

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• Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past, Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late.

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• I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.

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• I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

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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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Nancy Mitford (12)

Birth:	28th November, 1904
Death:	30th June, 1973
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Biographer

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