Nancy Mitford Quotes

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

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

‘Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry’ is an aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Aunt Sadie…so much disliked hearing about health that people often took her for a Christian Scientist, which, indeed, she might have become had she not disliked hearing about religion even more.