Quotes by Nancy Mitford

About Nancy Mitford:

Nancy Freeman-Mitford is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.
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Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Nancy Mitford

... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I...

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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 ...

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...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew w...

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It was the very worst kind of Banbury-Road house, depressing, with laurels. The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen a slut before but recognized the genus without difficulty as soon as I set eyes on this one.

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She...ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter....

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Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

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Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced.

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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

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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.

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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.

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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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Author Bio

  • NameNancy Mitford
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornNovember 28, 1904
  • DiedJune 30, 1973
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • WorksThe Pursuit Of Love; Noblesse Oblige
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire