Nancy Mitford - Life Quotes

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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Nancy Mitford
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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What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something — catch something — they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

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If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

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You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

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But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford