Fanny Burney Quotes
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![But how cool, how quiet is true courage! - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/22/28722A-but-how-cool-how-quiet-is-true-courage-fanny-burney.png)
But how cool, how quiet is true courage!
![Innocence, the first, best gift of Heaven. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/29/33629A-innocence-the-first-best-gift-of-heaven-fanny-burney.png)
Innocence, the first, best gift of Heaven.
![A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/88/32988A-a-little-alarm-now-and-then-keeps-life-from-stagnation-fanny-burney.png)
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
![Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/14/35914A-misery-is-a-guest-that-we-are-glad-part-with-fanny-burney.png)
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
![To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/44/31444A-to-a-heart-formed-for-friendship-affection-charms-solitude-are-fanny-burney.png)
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
![Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/14/31614A-generosity-without-delicacy-like-wit-without-judgment-generally-gives-as-fanny-burney.png)
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
![Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/60/41160A-travelling-is-the-ruin-of-all-happiness-theres-no-looking-fanny-burney.png)
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
![Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/32/38832A-nothing-is-so-delicate-as-the-reputation-woman-it-is-fanny-burney.png)
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
![Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/34/33434A-imagination-took-the-reins-and-reason-slow-paced-though-sure-fanny-burney.png)
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
![Wealth, indeed, per se, I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it. - Fanny Burney quote.](/img/q/38/41938A-wealth-indeed-per-se-i-never-too-much-valued-my-fanny-burney.png)
Wealth, indeed, per se, I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
![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 Burney quote.](/img/q/81/38381A-to-save-the-mind-from-preying-inwardly-upon-itself-it-fanny-burney.png)
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.