Nancy Mitford Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.
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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
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In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
