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

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

- 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…

- 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

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

- Fanny Burney

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

- 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.

- Fanny Burney

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

- Fanny Burney