Quotes by : Fanny Burney

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

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

There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished....

But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent....

Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins;....

Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so....

You could not see and know her, and remain unmoved by those sensations of affection which belong to so....