I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitfordalways either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
Nancy MitfordAmericans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
Nancy MitfordWhat is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.
Nancy Mitford