The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1) QUOTES

2 " I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

4 " I hope you have sent your jewels to the bank,’ I said.

‘Oh, darling, don’t tease, you know how I haven’t got any now. But my money,’ she said with a self-conscious giggle, ‘is sewn into my stays. Fa rang up and begged me to, and I must say it did seem quite an idea. Oh, why aren’t you coming? I do feel so terrified – think of sleeping in the train, all alone.’

‘Perhaps you won’t be alone,’ I said. ‘Foreigners are greatly given, I believe, to rape.’

‘Yes, that would be nice, so long as they didn’t find my stays. Oh, we are off – good-bye darling, do think of me,’ she said, and, clenching her suède-covered fist, she shook it out of the window in a Communist salute. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

6 " Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

8 " She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, but it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can’t imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

10 " My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is ‘White Fang.’ It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

12 " It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all... "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

14 " The charm of your writing,” Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, “depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter and literary language. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

16 " There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

18 " The Radletts were always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair; their emotions were on no ordinary plane, they loved or they loathed, they laughed or they cried, they lived in a world of superlatives. "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)

20 " There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment... "

― Nancy Mitford , The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)