Fashion is a capricious deity. Mary Russell Mitford More Quotes by Mary Russell Mitford More Quotes From Mary Russell Mitford No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day. Mary Russell Mitford hiking each-day journey The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice. Mary Russell Mitford kindness rain children The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination. Mary Russell Mitford nice appreciation beautiful Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year. Mary Russell Mitford autumn sunset years I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length. Mary Russell Mitford length lawyer excellence I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either. Mary Russell Mitford stills comfort book I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts. Mary Russell Mitford style book thinking Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent. Mary Russell Mitford eloquent catching enthusiasm I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing. Mary Russell Mitford expecting disappointment expectations To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. Mary Russell Mitford cash sports thinking I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead. Mary Russell Mitford old-dog dear dog
