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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.
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.
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one ... (more Nancy Mitford quotes)
Nancy and her sister Decca Mitford called each other "Susan" for most of their lives, though neither could remember how this came about.
Her sister Diana Mitford married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
Nancy's father, the second Lord Redesdale, was the original of 'Uncle Matthew' in her books The Pursuit of Love and ... (more Nancy Mitford trivia)
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The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 195273 by Nancy Mitford, Heywood Hill, and John Saumarez Smith |
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Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford and Charlotte Mosley |
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, and Charlotte Mosley |