Nancy Mitford Quotes

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

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• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Giving
  • Hate

• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • New
  • Year
  • Kiss

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Best
  • Depressed

• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • Found
  • Verse

• I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Science
  • Star
  • Fiction

• If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • World
  • Girl

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.

  

  Lorde
  • Simple
  • Sometimes
  • Clothes

• Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Sin
  • Thrive
  • Tables

• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Born

• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Nature
  • Complicated
  • Geometry

• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Men
  • Action

• The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

  

  Wilhelm Ostwald
  • Water
  • Process
  • View

• For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

  

  Robert Frost
  • King
  • Situation

• The spirit of the music and the energy that kicks back from the fans inspires me. To stay centered amidst the chaos I meditate. I first meditated at age 17 and have continued off and on through the years.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Spirit

• Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

  

  Mary Matalin
  • Die

• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Girls
  • Marry