Nancy Mitford

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

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.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of lifes essential unfairness.

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.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

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