Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Nancy Mitford (English Novelist, Biographer)

Nancy Freeman-Mitford (1904–73) was an English writer of witty novels of upper-class life in England and France. She also has a reputation as a writer of famous historical biographies.

Born in London, Mitford was educated at home. She was the elder sister of the authors Diana Mosley, Unity Mitford, and Jessica Mitford.

Mitford established a reputation with her witty novels such as the quasi-autobiographical The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949,) followed by The Blessing (1951) and Don’t Tell Alfred (1960.)

After World War II, Mitford settled in France and wrote her major biographies Madame de Pompadour (1953,) Voltaire in Love (1957,) The Sun King (1966; about Louis XIV,) and Frederick the Great (1970.)

As one of the essayists in Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956; she also co-edited it,) Mitford helped to originate the distinction between linguistic usages that are U (upper class) and those that are non-U (not upper class.)

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
Topics: Family

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away
Nancy Mitford
Topics: Children, One liners

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
Topics: Aristocracy

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