Fanny Burney Quotes

Most popular Fanny Burney Quotes

But how cool, how quiet is true courage! - Fanny Burney quote.
But how cool, how quiet is true courage!
— Fanny Burney Evelina, or A Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World

courage

Innocence, the first, best gift of Heaven. - Fanny Burney quote.
Innocence, the first, best gift of Heaven.
— Fanny Burney Evelina, or a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World

innocence

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation. - Fanny Burney quote.
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
— Fanny Burney Camilla

the human condition

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return. - Fanny Burney quote.
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
— Fanny Burney The Early Diary of Frances Burney

misery

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. - Fanny Burney quote.
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
— Fanny Burney Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress

friendship solitude

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. - Fanny Burney quote.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
— Fanny Burney Evelina

generosity

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. - Fanny Burney quote.
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
— Fanny Burney Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress

Travel

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.
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 Evelina

reputation

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.
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 Evelina, or a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World

reason imagination

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.
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 The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, Madame D'Arblay

wealth

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.
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 Camilla: Or, a Picture of Youth

pursuit