Nancy Mitford Quotes

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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

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Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees...

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I loathe abroad, nothing would induce me to live there … and, as for foreigners, they are all the same, and they all make me sick.

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

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The wedding was splendid & I greatly enjoyed it but oh the get ups I never saw worse. I'm sure English women are dowdier than when I was young. The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one — huge muffs of horror.

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Cocktail party?... It's a new idea — don't you have them at Oxford? You will soon, mark my words. I rather like them. You're not obliged to talk to anybody and when you get home, it's bedtime.

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Sophia wished that Florence would not talk about the Almighty as if his real name was Godfrey, and God was just Florence's nickname for him.

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Uncle Matthew's four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. 'Frogs,' he would say, 'are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. '

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One's emotions are intensified in Paris — one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place.

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Davey and Aunt Emily... sat there, smugly thinking that they had always looked exactly the same. Quite useless to discuss questions of age with old people, they have such peculiar ideas on the subject. 'Not really old at all, only seventy,' you hear them saying.

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Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

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A slight bore in Greece is that one is discouraged from swimming from a boat as there are sharks. This is quite new & said to be Nasser's fault, he is supposed to beckon them through the canal to eat us all up. I don't greatly fear death but it would be too ridiculous — even one's greatest friends would laugh if one were eaten I feel!

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

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