3 Quotes by Mary Mitford

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world.