"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."

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Source : 'Noblesse Oblige' (1956) 'The English Aristocracy'

Nancy Mitford

#Running Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Luck Quotes

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”
“You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.”
“So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.”
“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”
“In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.”
“There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.”
“I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!”
“I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.”

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