A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.
Nancy MitfordWhen the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
Nancy MitfordThere are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
Nancy MitfordAnd Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
Nancy MitfordThe worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
Nancy Mitford