[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.
Jessica Mitfordthe whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
Jessica MitfordKnowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.
Jessica Mitford