Nancy Mitford

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

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.

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.

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

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