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Fanny Burney Quotes

«Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer) | About: Travel | Keywords: building, Italy, looking at, ruin, traveling
«In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer) | Keywords: bosom, resided, respectable
«I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer) | Keywords: restless
«. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer)
«A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer)
«There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer)
«. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer)
«I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer) | Keywords: confessing
«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.»
Author: Fanny Burney (Writer)
«Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.»