Quotes by Mary Russell Mitford

“She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.”

“To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.”

“Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.”

“She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers.”

“Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world.”

Friendship is the bread of the heart.