Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
Jessica MitfordWhen is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
Jessica MitfordIn childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.
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 MitfordAlas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.
Jessica Mitford