Don't Tell Alfred Quotes

“What can’t be cured must be endured.”
― Nancy Mitford, Don't Tell Alfred

“We remember the old world as it had been for a thousand years, so beautiful and diverse, and which, in only thirty years, has crumbled away. When we were young every country still had its own architecture and customs and food. Can you ever forget the first sight of Italy? Those ochre houses, all different, each with such character, with their trompe l'oeil paintings on the stucco? Queer and fascinating and strange, even to a Provencal like me? Now the dreariness! The suburbs of every town uniform all over the world, while perhaps in the very centre a few old monuments sadly survive as though in a glass case.”
― Nancy Mitford, Don't Tell Alfred

“Adorable as she was, Northey was by no means an easy proposition. She was now in love, for the first time (or so she said, but is it not always the first time, and for that matter, the last?) and complained about it with the squeaks and yelps of a thwarted puppy.”
― Nancy Mitford, Don't Tell Alfred

“Undeniable; Jennifer was one of those women whose meaning, if they have one, is only apparent to husband and children,”
― Nancy Mitford, Don't Tell Alfred