109 Quotes by Nancy Mitford


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    All the heat there was seemed to concentrate in the Hons' cupboard, which was always stifling. Here we would sit, huddled up on the slatted shelves, and talk for hours about life and death.

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    It’s a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they’ve no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

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    The people welcome a new da yas if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

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    Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.

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    Children should be like waffles – you should be able to throw the first one away.

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    No woman really minds hearing of the past affairs of her lover, it is the future alone that has the power to terrify.

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