Nancy Mitford

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.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.