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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford
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Greece Is Not A Country Of Happy Mediums: Everything There Seems To Be Either Wonderful Or Horrible.
Country
Wonderful
Horrible
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.
Marriage
Children
Intimate Relationships
In France That Is The One Rule, Never Make Trouble.
France
Trouble
Nothing Makes People Crosser Than Being Considered Too Old For Love.
People
Age
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.
Mother
Thinking
Great Love
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.
Book
Reading
White
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?
Should
Dear
Wretched
Most People Like Reading About What They Already Know - There Is Even A Public For Yesterday's Weather.
Reading
Weather
Yesterday
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.
Girl
Widows
May
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.
Dog
Bird
Needs
Nothing About Human Beings Ever Had The Power To Move Me As A Child. Black Beauty Now ... !
Children
Moving
Black
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?
Laughing
Making Love
Cry
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.
Travel
Tourists
Yards
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
Water
Black
Despair
Twice In Her Life She Had Mistaken Something Else For It; It Was Like Seeing Somebody In The Street Who You Think Is A Friend, You Whistle And Wave And Run After Him, And It Is Not Only Not The Friend, But Not Even Very Like Him. A Few Minutes Later The Real Friend Appears In View, And Then You Can't Imagine How You Ever Mistook That Other Person For Him. Linda Was Now Looking Upon The Authentic Face Of Love, And She Knew It, But It Frightened Her. That It Should Come So Casually, So Much By A Series Of Accidents, Was Frightening.
Running
Real
Thinking
Irish Gardens Beat All For Horror. With 19 Gardeners, Lord Talbot Of Malahide Has Produced An Affair Exactly Like A Suburban Golf Course.
Nature
Golf
Garden
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.
Typical
Lobster
Would Be
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.
Ideas
Long
People
And Left-wing People Are Always Sad Because They Mind Dreadfully About Their Causes, And The Causes Are Always Going So Badly.
Wings
People
Mind
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.
Doctors
Goes On
Human Nature
Children Should Be Like Waffles--you Should Be Able To Throw The First One Away.
Children
Waffles
Able
I Do Love Translating; It Is The Pure Pleasure Of Writing Without The Misery Of Inventing.
Writing
Misery
Pleasure
Oh How Television Diminishes Everything.
Television
Diminish
I Love Children, Especially When They Cry For Then Someone Takes Them Away.
Love
Children
Memorable
Born: November 28, 1904
Died: June 30, 1973
Occupation: Novelist
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