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Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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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.
Nancy Mitford
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
Nancy Mitford
I do love translating it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
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
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Nancy Mitford
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.
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
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
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
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
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
Nancy Mitford
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
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
If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
Nancy Mitford
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.
Nancy Mitford
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
Nancy Mitford
