Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
But authors before they write should read. - Fanny Burney
But authors before they write should read.
- Fanny Burney
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to thin… - Fanny Burney
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to thin…
To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, w… - Fanny Burney
To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, w…
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. - Fanny Burney
How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is gratefu… - Fanny Burney
How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is gratefu…
Concealment is the foe of tranquility. - Fanny Burney
Concealment is the foe of tranquility.
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. - Fanny Burney
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. - Fanny Burney
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. - Fanny Burney
to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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