Fanny Burney Quotes

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• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  Fanny Burney

  Women, Memorable, Ashamed

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• We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

  Fanny Burney

  Complaining, Affliction, Pleasure

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

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• O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

  Fanny Burney

  Liberty, Doe, Gender

  Diary, 20 July 1768

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• 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

  Beautiful, Reputation, Delicate

  Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.186

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• A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

  Fanny Burney

  Alarms, Littles, Now And Then

  Camilla bk. 3, ch. 11 (1796)

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• Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

  Fanny Burney

  Travel, Ruins, Building

  Cecilia bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782)

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• How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

  Fanny Burney

  Real, Reading, Writing

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• to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Expectations, Increase, Enjoyment

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

  Fanny Burney

  Tranquility, Foe, Concealment

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• To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

  Fanny Burney

  Memories, Heart, Nimble

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics

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• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

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  Happiness, Disappointment, Giving Up

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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• How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

  Fanny Burney

  Gratitude, Grateful, Opposites

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• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

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  Pain, Disappointment, Reality

  Fanny Burney (2011). “Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World”, p.22, The Floating Press

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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 Burney

  Writing, Heart, Wish

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics

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• Credulity is the sister of innocence.

  Fanny Burney

  Innocence, Gullibility, Credulity

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• But authors before they write should read.

  Fanny Burney

  Writing, Should

  Fanny Burney (1842). “Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay”, p.5

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• You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

  Fanny Burney

  Judging

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  Song, Night, Soul

  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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• Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

  Fanny Burney

  Pain, Generosity, Giving

  "Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World".

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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.

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  Mind, Way, Elude

  Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”

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• Tis best to build no castles in the air.

  Fanny Burney

  Air, Castles, Castles In The Air

  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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• No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

  Fanny Burney

  Men, Preparation, May

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 6, ch. 10

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• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  May, Riches, Wealth

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130

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• You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

  Fanny Burney

  Sarcastic, Women, Scotland

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• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  Fanny Burney

  Children, Hero, Greatness

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