109 Quotes by Nancy Mitford


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    (...) I was dreading the dinner because I knew that once I found myself in the dining-room seated (...), it would no longer be possible to remain a silent spectator, I should be obliged to try and think of things to say. It had been drummed into me all my life (...) that silence at meal times is anti-social. -'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say (...)

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    -(...)I should like you to be on the verge of love but not yet quite in it. That's a very nice state of mind, while it lasts. -But of course, I had already dived over that verge and was swimming away in a blue sea of illusion towards, I supposed, the islands of the blest, but really towards domesticity, maternity and the usual lot of womankind.

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    I rather dread doctors at one’s age, it always seems to me they take one look at you, cry cancer & remove several important portions of your anatomy. (p89)

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    She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.

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    Air raid warning Yellow', she had experienced the unhealthy glow of excitement that she might easily become a air raid addict, or take to air raids in the same way that people do to drugs, and for much the same reason.

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    Sophia feared that divorce, re-marriage, and subsequent poverty would not bring out the best in her character.

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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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