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They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.
— Mary Russell Mitford
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
— Jessica Mitford
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
— Jessica Mitford
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
— Jessica Mitford
That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.
— Mary Russell Mitford
![Best Mitford Quotes By Mary Russell Mitford: [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/best-mitford-quotes-by-mary-russell-mitford-461415.jpg "Best Mitford Quotes By Mary Russell Mitford: [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character")
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
— Mary Russell Mitford
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
— Nancy Mitford
Fashion is a capricious deity ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot.
— Nancy Mitford
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
— Jessica Mitford
Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.
— Mary Russell Mitford
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
— Jessica Mitford
There is no running away from a great grief.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
— Mary Russell Mitford
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.
— Mary Russell Mitford
It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ...
— Nancy Mitford
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...
— Mary Russell Mitford
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
— Nancy Mitford
Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry
— Nancy Mitford
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
— Nancy Mitford
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
— Nancy Mitford
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
— Nancy Mitford
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
— Nancy Mitford
Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.
— Jessica Mitford
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.
— Nancy Mitford
Objectivity? I always have an objective.
— Jessica Mitford
