Nancy Mitford Quotes about Children

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

Nancy Mitford

Life, Children, Nice

Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

Nancy Mitford

Love, Children, Memorable

Nancy Mitford (2011). “The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford”, p.7, Penguin UK

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

Nancy Mitford

Children, Waffles, Able

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

Nancy Mitford

Children, Moving, Black

Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.21, Vintage

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Nancy Mitford

Marriage, Children, Intimate Relationships

Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.126, Vintage

Nancy Mitford Quotes about Children

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