Quotes from Fanny Burney

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

He has no more manners than a bear.

One indulgence alone from time to time I allow myself -- 'tis Music! which has power to delight me even to rapture! it quiets all anxiety, it carries me out of myself, I forget through it every calamity, even the bitterest anguish.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

Pleasure given in society, like money lent in usury, returns with interest to those who dispense it.

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

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

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.