37 Quotes by Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative’s funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment – in disastrously unequal battle.

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don’t stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he’s sick, it doesn’t mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don’t ask for the left-luggage; it’s called a checkroom.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening...

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It’s just that I wouldn’t want one to bury my sister.

Picking other people’s brains is an art worth cultivating.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When “Somebody Up There” – a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator – so decrees.