Quotes by Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford

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.

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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

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Girl

May

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

Girl

May

Widows

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Black

Despair

Water

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It’s not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Children

Intimate Relationships

Marriage

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Dollars

Effort

United States

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.

Cutting

Luck

Running

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Mind

People

Wings

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,’ I said. ‘He was the great love of her life, you know.’ Oh, dulling,’ said my mother, sadly. ‘One always thinks that. Every, every time.

Great Love

Mother

Thinking

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

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Needs

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Quotes by Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford

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.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

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

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It’s not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

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.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,’ I said. ‘He was the great love of her life, you know.’ Oh, dulling,’ said my mother, sadly. ‘One always thinks that. Every, every time.

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

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