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Nancy Mitford

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I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.


— Nancy Mitford


#love

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.


— Nancy Mitford


#dreams

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?


— Nancy Mitford


#marriage #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.


— Nancy Mitford


#book #bothered #ever #fang #good

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.


— Nancy Mitford


#fall #like #love #love you #mind

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.


— Nancy Mitford


#children #cry #especially #i #i love

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?


— Nancy Mitford


#glory #king #less #loves #pleasure

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


#aristocracy #been #chicken #cut #dead






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In the Angel television series' episode "She" a reference is made about a flower called "Nancy's Petticoat" and how it was named after Nancy Mitford. The owners of her Paris apartment needed it back for their children Nancy Mitford wanted a garden and her Parisian friends were dying (Evelyn Waugh in 1966). Heywood Hill and was unfaithful in her turn.

She is best remembered for her series of novels about upper-class life in England and France particularly the four publiNancy Mitfordd after 1945; but Nancy Mitford also wrote four popular biographies (of Louis XIV Madame de Pompadour Voltaire and Frederick the Great). Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon.

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