Nancy Mitford Professions : Novelist Born : November 28, 1904 Died : June 30, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 50 quotes by Nancy Mitford 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. Nancy Mitford real running thinking 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. Nancy Mitford cutting luck running 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 Nancy Mitford despair black water 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. Nancy Mitford paris unhappy joy There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are. Nancy Mitford poverty moments remember When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home. Nancy Mitford paper home writing Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love. Nancy Mitford age people 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. Nancy Mitford long people ideas 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. Nancy Mitford yards tourists travel 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. Nancy Mitford typical would-be lobster 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. Nancy Mitford doctors human-nature goes-on Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. Nancy Mitford dollars united-states effort Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? Nancy Mitford royalty glory kings And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly. Nancy Mitford mind wings people Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. Nancy Mitford garden nature golf Sun, silence, and happiness. Nancy Mitford silence sun Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather. Nancy Mitford reading yesterday weather Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... ! Nancy Mitford black children moving 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? Nancy Mitford cry making-love laughing Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible. Nancy Mitford horrible wonderful country Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors