the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.
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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