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Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
Biographer
Journalist
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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More quotes by 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 great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
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.
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
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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 do love translating it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
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
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
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
And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
Nancy Mitford
If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
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
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
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
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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
oh how television diminishes everything.
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
