Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.
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
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
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered. - Nancy Mitford
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source … - Nancy Mitford
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source …
What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I t… - Nancy Mitford
What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I t…
If one can't be happy, one must be amused. - Nancy Mitford
If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. - Nancy Mitford
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. - Nancy Mitford
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. - Nancy Mitford
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
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 experience and makes a good beginning in… - Nancy Mitford
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 experience and makes a good beginning in…
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