Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding
Nancy Mitford could have been referring to herself. Though she was a great wit and became a marvelous writer, she did not possess the talent for love, and her feckless husband, Peter Rodd, even less so. Within a decade of their marriage, she would consider him "the most boring man in the world," which she minded more than his other undesirable traits: drunkenness, laziness, and dishonesty.