109 Quotes by Fanny Burney

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

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.

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!

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

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

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

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.