Frances Burney Professions : Novelist Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Frances Burney To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! Frances Burney thoughts nobody friends my-own Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. Frances Burney moves kinds most occasions I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. Frances Burney confess i-am nothing ashamed Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. Frances Burney looking building happiness travel To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. Frances Burney indeed must more may I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow. Frances Burney great sorrow sleep joy But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. Frances Burney never judgment tired young 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. Frances Burney looking friends mind time In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla. Frances Burney bosom her family respectable 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. Frances Burney i-wish truth wish history There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. Frances Burney me respect earth age The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. Frances Burney naturally too pleasure mind 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. Frances Burney live together people looks 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. Frances Burney first-step step ambition mind We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. Frances Burney say support opinion reality Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
