Mary Russell Mitford Quotes

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• 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

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  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

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Fashion, Lasts, Fairytale

  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

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• Friendship is the bread of the heart.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Heart, Bread

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

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• I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Comfort, Stills

  Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser”, p.232

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Wise, People, May

  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

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• The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Kindness, Children, Rain

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439

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• I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Husband, Butterfly, Hunting

  "The Life of Mary Russell Mitford", vol. 1, by Mary Russell Mitford, (letter to Sir William Elford, 1st Baronet), 1870.

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Sunset, Autumn, Years

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

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• There is no running away from a great grief.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Running, Grief, Running Away

  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

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• 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

  Flower, Simple, People

  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

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Enthusiasm, Catching, 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

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• Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Garden, Looks

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

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Taste, Prejudice, Reason

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

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• Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Idols, People, Woods

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Children, Tree, Growth

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

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• ... 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

  Passion, Littles, Arguing

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

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• 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

  Character, Civilization, People

  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

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• Fashion is a capricious deity.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Fashion, Deities, Capricious

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

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Pieces, Painting, Should

  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

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• She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Husband, Butterfly, Hunting

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• I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Dog, Old Dog, Dear

  Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: 2d Ser”, p.92

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• I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Disappointment, Expectations, Expecting

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

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• Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Distance, Believe, People

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

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Journey, Hiking, Each Day

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

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• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

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