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Top 9 Nancy Milford Quotes (2025 Update)

Nancy Milford Quote: “Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “But it was not her beauty that was arresting. It was her style, a sort of insolence toward life, her total lack of caution, her fearless and abundant pride.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “I hope I’ll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It’s so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people – and I might not could if I tried...”
Nancy Milford Quote: “There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.”
Nancy Milford Quote: “When man is no longer his own master, custodian of his own silly vanities and childish contentments he’s nothing at all – being in the first place only an agent of a very experimental stage of organic free will.”
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