All the heat there was seemed to concentrate in the Hons' cupboard, which was always stifling. Here we would sit, huddled up on the slatted shelves, and talk for hours about life and death.
"Nancy Freeman-Mitford" CBE, known as "Nancy Mitford", was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford family#Mitford sisters/Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright young things/Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the Interwar period/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.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Nancy Mitford on Wikipedia.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.
"Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late.
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.
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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