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Nancy Freeman-Mitford, plus connue sous le nom de Nancy Mitford, née le 28 novembre 1904 à Londres et décédée le 30 juin 1973 à Versailles, est une romancière et biographe britannique aussi célèbre pour ses œuvres que pour son rôle prépondérant dans la vie mondaine, en France comme en Grande-Bretagne, au cours de l'entre-deux-guerres.

✵ 28. novembre 1904 – 30. juin 1973
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Nancy Mitford: 9 citations0 J'aime

Nancy Mitford: Citations en anglais

“Well, now you can see for yourself that she was delicate", said Davey triumphantly. "She's dead. It killed her. Doesn't that show you? I do wish I could make you Radletts understand that there is no such thing as imaginary illness. Nobody who is quite well could possibly be bothered to do all the things that I, for instance, am obliged to, in order to keep my wretched frame on its feet.”

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Nancy Mitford livre Love in a Cold Climate

Source: Love in a Cold Climate

“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”

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Source: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

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“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”

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Nancy Mitford livre The Pursuit of Love

Source: The Pursuit of Love

“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”

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Nancy Mitford livre Christmas Pudding

Source: Christmas Pudding

“Sun, silence, and happiness.”

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Nancy Mitford livre The Pursuit of Love

Source: The Pursuit of Love

“always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives”

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Nancy Mitford livre The Pursuit of Love

Source: The Pursuit of Love

“But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.'
Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”

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Nancy Mitford

Source: The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

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