Quotes by Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford

… they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Arguing

Littles

Passion

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] … for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other – also for diction. Her words paint.

Diction

Missing

Poet

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Character

Genius

Sweetness

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Painting

Pieces

Should

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Autumn

Sunset

Years

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.

Book

Wings

Writing

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Essentials

Mind

Play

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Catching

Eloquent

Enthusiasm

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Capricious

Deities

Fashion

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Bread

Heart

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Arguing

Autumn

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Bread

Butterfly

Capricious

Cash

Catching

Character

Children

Civilization

Comfort

Dear

Deities

Diction

Disappointment

Distance

Dog

Doubt

Each Day

Eloquent

Enthusiasm

Essentials

Excellence

Expectations

Expecting

Fairytale

Fashion

Flower

Garden

Genius

Grief

Growth

Heart

Hiking

Hunting

Husband

Idols

Journey

Kindness

Lasts

Lawyer

Length

Letters

Littles

Looks

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Quotes by Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford

… they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] … for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other – also for diction. Her words paint.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

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