Nancy Mitford Quotes

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Nancy Mitford

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• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Home
  • Speak

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Happy
  • See
  • Face

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Jazz

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Negative
  • Nasty
  • Narrow

• 'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Moments

• I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Time
  • Born
  • Jazz

• The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • College

• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Work
  • Art
  • War

• To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Motivated

• Could she learn to like this guy? "“It's nice to meet you." Kylie plastered a warm expression on her face. But she worried he could tell it was a sham. "The pleasure is all mine," he said. Kylie just smiled. He was completely right about that.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Guy
  • Nice

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Society

• Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Friends
  • Marry
  • Disillusioning