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
running baby food
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.
believe people unhappy
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
family life-lesson lessons
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
paris joy unhappy
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.
running cutting luck
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.
dream dinner dresses
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
love fall advice
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
thinking hunting eggs
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.
bored people sometimes
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
heat hours life seemed talk
All the heat there was seemed to concentrate in the Hons' cupboard, which was always stifling. Here we would sit, huddled up on the slatted shelves, and talk for hours about life and death.