Quotes by Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford

Alas, 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.

Beautiful

Memories

Order

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word ‘morticians,’ first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, ‘not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven’t the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

Ambition

Chicago

Firsts

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

Growing Up

Spring

Summer

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

Fighting

Men

War

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Childbirth

Pain

Reassuring

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

Children

Interesting

Knowing

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative’s funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment – in disastrously unequal battle.

Funeral

Hands

Victory

Objectivity? I’ve always had an objective.

Objectives

Objectivity

Picking other people’s brains is an art worth cultivating.

Art

Brain

People

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Prison

Wall

Would Be

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America

Art

Beautiful

Brain

Change

Chicago

Childbirth

Children

Dictator

Expression

Fighting

Firsts

Funeral

Government

Growing Up

Hands

Heartless

Injustice

Interesting

Knowing

May

Mean

Memories

Men

Objectives

Objectivity

Order

Pain

Paradox

People

Prison

Reassuring

Roles

Running

Spring

Summer

Trying

Unjust

Victory

Wall

War

World

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Quotes by Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative’s funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment – in disastrously unequal battle.

Objectivity? I’ve always had an objective.

Picking other people’s brains is an art worth cultivating.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

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