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Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford,[n 1] was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the inter-war years, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.

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

Dinner, Dream, Dreams, Dresses, Stranger, Thought

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.

Children, Intimate, Intimate Relationships, Marriage, Remember

the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

Baby, Diamond, Fantastic, Food, Hard, Running

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Badly, Dreadfully, Mind, People, Sad, Wings

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

Aphorism, Civil, Girl, Know, Marry, May

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now. . . !

Beauty, Black, Children, Human, Moving, Nothing

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

Floors, Night, Spring, Summer, Trees, Warm

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Amused, Happy, Motivational, Thought Provoking

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

Affair, Garden, Gardeners, Gardens, Golf, Nature

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, Good, Life, Reading, White

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

Big, Girl, Heaven, Interesting, Marry, Marrying

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

Black, Despair, Drowning, Loathed, Peak, Water

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, Girls, Marry, May, Widow, Widows

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?

Dear, Disillusioning, Know, Should, Wretched

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

Home, Loo, Paper, Thinner, Writing

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

Moments, Poverty, Remember, Though

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

Like, Public, Reading, Weather, Yesterday

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.

Imagine, Real, Running, Thinking, View, Whistle

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.

Bird, Dog, Follow, Like, Needs

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay. . . I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Awfully, Causes, Gay, Mind, Party, Wings

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