Fanny Burney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.”
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“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) (1820). “Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to the world [by F. Burney].”, p.45
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“Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Cecilia bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782)
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“To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.”
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“To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”
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“to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics
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“To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, with the most unlimited confidence, the most unremitting sincerity, to the end of my life!”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics
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“We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics
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“I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.”
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“O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.”
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“Tis best to build no castles in the air.”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke (2011). “The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787”, p.293, Oxford University Press
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“I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.”
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“credulity is the sister of innocence ...”
-- Fanny BurneySource : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.250, Delphi Classics
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“falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.”
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“to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!”
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“The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.”
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“I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.”
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“Childhood is never troubled with foresight.”
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“I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.”
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“the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.”
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“such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.”
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“an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.”
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“while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!”
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“while all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears ...”
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“Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!”
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“I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.”
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“it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.”
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“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling”
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