Nancy Mitford Quotes

“Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy

“Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

“Thelma Cazalet MP, unlike most of the other British 'honoured guests' attending [the 1938 Reichsparteitag], was strongly anti-Nazi and had accepted Ribbentrop's invitation only because she thought it important 'to be aware of what was going on.' As she entered the dining room of the Grand Hotel on the first night, she immediately caught sight of Unity Mitford seated at the long 'British' table with her parents Lord and Lady Redesdale. 'Unity is alarmingly pretty,' she wrote in her diary, 'but I have never seen anyone so pretty with absolutely no charm in her face and a rather stupid expression.”
― julia boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich