Quote

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.

Fanny Burney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fanny Burney
Ridicule
Laughed
Rather
Done
Thing
Mind
World

More quotes by Fanny Burney

Image
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
Fanny Burney
Image
to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
Fanny Burney
Image
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
Fanny Burney
Image
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.
Fanny Burney
Image
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Fanny Burney
Image
Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
Fanny Burney
Image
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Fanny Burney
Image
the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.
Fanny Burney
Image
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
Fanny Burney
Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
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
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
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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
falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
Fanny Burney
Image
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
Image
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
Fanny Burney
Image
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Fanny Burney
Image
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.
Fanny Burney
Image
This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.
Fanny Burney