Fanny Burney
Fanny Burney
Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr. Charles Burneyand Esther Sleepe Burney. The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her "scribblings" at the age of ten. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 June 1752
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There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
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.
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.