Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie Quotes

“Maurice Baring’s”
― Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie

“Sophia poured out tea, and asked after his Lesbian irises. ‘They were not what they seemed,’ he said, ‘wretched things. I brought the roots all the way from Lesbos, as you know, and when they came up, what were they? Mere pansies. Too mortifying.”
― Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie