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Mary Russell Mitford Quotes

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.238

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Charles Boner, Mary Russell Mitford (1871). “Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner: With Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years”, p.123

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Mary Russell Mitford, Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1906). “Our village”

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.21

There is no running away from a great grief.

Mary Russell Mitford (1841). “The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the First”, p.227

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.11

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.32

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.189, London, R. Bentley

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

Mary Russell Mitford (1841). “The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse ...”, p.186

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.333

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.52

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Mary Russell Mitford (1828). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.160

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.319, London, R. Bentley

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Mary Russell Mitford (1859). “Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition”, p.297

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.62

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: Edited by Henry Chorley. In 2 volumes. I”, p.116

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.11