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
mother thinking great-love
But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
love children kids
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
book reading white
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.
france trouble
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
reading weather yesterday
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
poverty remember moments
there are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
effort united-states dollars
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
children moving black
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
laughing making-love cry
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?
lobster would-be green
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.
country wonderful horrible
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
doctors goes-on human-nature
English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
silence sun
Sun, silence, and happiness.
nature golf garden
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.