“She had all the sentimentality of her generation, and this sentimentality, growing like a green moss over her spirit, helped to conceal its texture of stone, if not from others at any rate from herself.”
—Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford (via touchingfromalongdistance)
March 2012
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“It’s no good pretending that winning isn’t marvellous, I speak as a life-long loser.”
—Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, in a letter to her sister Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (via acockeyedoptimist)
“In the nineteen-sixties when very short skirts were the fashion, Nancy said, “Now we shall have to choose whether to be dowdy or ridiculous.”
“Which will you choose?” I asked.
“Oh, ridiculous of course,” she replied.” —Diana Mitford (via ancientqueen)
“Which will you choose?” I asked.
“Oh, ridiculous of course,” she replied.” —Diana Mitford (via ancientqueen)
I stopped following you once thinking you gave up completely on this blog, but I am so excited to see it again! 8D Thank you for it!
No, thank you, nice messages like this make me fuzzy inside. I thought I’d given up on it as well. Then I reread Hons and Rebel and realized my Mitford passion still burns strong.
“But, while they picked up a great deal of heterogeneous information, and gilded it with their own originality, while they bridged gulfs of ignorance with their charm and high spirits, they never acquired the habit of concentration, they were incapable of solid hard work. One result, later in life, was that they could not stand boredom. Storms and difficulties left them unmoved, but day after day of ordinary existence produced an unbearable torture of ennui, because they completely lacked any form of mental discipline.”
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Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
Someone should have had a talk with my father while he was raising me…and someone else should have spoken to Nancy Mitford about her comma splice habit.
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“You’ve no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it’s over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”
—Nancy Mitford (via weedcave)
