Mitford Sisters Quotes & Sayings

I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss. — Giuseppe Verdi

These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality
Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness. — Kevin Dutton

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi

His life had been disrupted, but not his billing cycles. — Victor LaValle

Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity.

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family — Mary S. Lovell

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon. — Florence King

I've totally fallen for him. Really bad.I don't know how I'm going to go back to Texas,Kate."
"On an airplane."
She scowled at me. "I'm serious.I don't want to leave him. — Rachel Hawthorne

It's up to you. Everyone should get to choose their own way, and that's all I mean by yelling. But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That's how it generally goes in my country. But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again. Remembering aches, like when I remember my father. It'd be so much easier to never wonder about him. I'm sure he remembers my face, but it's hard to remember his, when he's been gone so long! Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you. — Catherynne M Valente

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. — Nancy Mitford

Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed. — Roger Ebert

Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions." (Love on a Gunboat") — Malcolm Bradbury

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth. — Kate Klise

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power ... — Ethan Canin

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence ... — Jane Bennett

Yet it is possible to practice the art of living even in a concentration camp, although suffering is omnipresent. To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative. It — Viktor E. Frankl

Well, I have come back, angel. And I'm very anxious to pick up right where I left off. Let's see, where was that? Your bedroom, I believe. Ah, that's right. Your bed. And let's see, just how were we situated? — Heather Graham