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Top 20 Mary Russell Mitford Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “Friendship is the bread of the heart.”

1. “Friendship is the bread of the heart.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

2. “The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.”

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

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one’s age...”

4. “Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one’s age...”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.”

5. “We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “There is no running away from a great grief.”

7. “There is no running away from a great grief.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.”

8. “I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!”

9. “Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!”

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

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

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.”

11. “No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”

12. “I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.”

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

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.”

14. “That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “Well, great authors are great people – but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.”

15. “Well, great authors are great people – but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “I have still the best comforts of life – books and friendships – and I trust never to lose my relish for either.”

16. “I have still the best comforts of life – books and friendships – and I trust never to lose my relish for either.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing...”

17. “I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing...”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!”

18. “Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “I do not think very highly of Madame D’Arblay’s books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson’s old stilts.”

19. “I do not think very highly of Madame D’Arblay’s books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson’s old stilts.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.”

20. “Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.”

21. “In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford Quote: “I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.”

22. “I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.”

— Mary Russell Mitford

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