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If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
Biographer
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Screenwriter
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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I do love translating it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.
Nancy Mitford
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.
Nancy Mitford
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.
Nancy Mitford
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.
Nancy Mitford
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
Nancy Mitford
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
Nancy Mitford
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
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.
Nancy Mitford
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person there are other things, you know.
Nancy Mitford
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.
Nancy Mitford
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Nancy Mitford
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
Nancy Mitford
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
Nancy Mitford
oh how television diminishes everything.
Nancy Mitford
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.
Nancy Mitford
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.
Nancy Mitford
Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?
Nancy Mitford
