Quote

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

Fanny Burney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fanny Burney
Step
Positive
Steps
Taken
Even
Resolution

More quotes by 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
Childhood is never troubled with foresight.
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
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 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
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
Fanny Burney
Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Fanny Burney
Image
In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
Fanny Burney
Image
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney
Image
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
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
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance
Fanny Burney
Image
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
Image
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
Image
There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!
Fanny Burney
Image
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
Fanny Burney
Image
to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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