Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the inter-war years, she 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 November 1904
fella late matthew minutes past precisely quarter saying six uncle
Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late
home writing paper
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
wings people mind
And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
kings royalty glory
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
adversity shields
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
marriage children intimate-relationships
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.
travel ants sides
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.
girl may aphorism
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,
dog bird taught
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.
people age
nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ...
children waffles able
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
should dear knows
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?
ideas people long
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.
girl widows may
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.