Quote

But authors before they write should read.

Fanny Burney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fanny Burney
Authors
Read
Write
Writing

More quotes by 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
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling
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
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
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
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
Fanny Burney
Image
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
Fanny Burney
Image
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
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
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
Fanny Burney
Image
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!
Fanny Burney
Image
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
Fanny Burney
Image
falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
Fanny Burney
Image
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
Fanny Burney
Image
to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
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
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
Image
How little has situation to do with happiness.
Fanny Burney