43 Quotes by Fanny Fern

There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It’s the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go ‘neck and heels’ into it.

What a pity when editors review a woman’s book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man’s heart is through his palate.