Quotes by : Nancy Mitford

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

... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all....

...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull....

Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched,....

Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still....

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves....

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting....

A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner....

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....