Frances Burney Quotes & Sayings

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8 most famous Frances Burney quotes and sayings (novelist).

Frances Burney Quotes
“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.”
Frances Burney Quotes
“People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.”
“To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!”
Frances Burney Quotes
“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”
Frances Burney Quotes
“Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.”
Frances Burney Quotes
“The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.”
Frances Burney Quotes
“We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.”
Frances Burney Quotes
“There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.”

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