I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. Nancy Mitford
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. Nancy Mitford
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness. Nancy Mitford
Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. ‘Frogs’, he would say, ‘are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.’ Nancy Mitford
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
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? Nancy Mitford