Quote

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

Fanny Burney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fanny Burney
Must
Despise
Riches
Surely
Prosperity
Indeed
Worthily
Mankind
Dispense
Wealth
Philosophic
May
Beneficial

More quotes by Fanny Burney

Image
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
Fanny Burney
Image
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Fanny Burney
Image
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Fanny Burney
Image
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
Image
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
Image
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Fanny Burney
Image
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
Fanny Burney
Image
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
Fanny Burney
Image
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
Fanny Burney
Image
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
Fanny Burney
Image
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
Image
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
Fanny Burney
Image
But authors before they write should read.
Fanny Burney
Image
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 Burney
Image
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Fanny Burney
Image
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.
Fanny Burney
Image
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
Fanny Burney
Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!
Fanny Burney
Image
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
Image
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
Fanny Burney