Quotes About Fanny

I think, for one's single book, one would be wise to choose Mansfield Park or Emma rather even than Pride and Prejudice. "Wisdom is better than wit," as Jane Austen told Fanny, "and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side." People who begin by loving Pride and Prejudice, may end by rereading the later novels more often.

I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. The story is just legendary for us Danes, and it was really well done.

Even as a teenager, he felt protective toward Fanny and sometimes sounded more like parent than child.

Yet the episode suggests that Fanny may have been aloof in the outside world and showed her emotions only in private.

Most revealing is how the letter ends—with Jack portraying himself and Fanny as common victims of Pierpont.

He was at the concert last night, and she looked at him as if he were her whole dependence and delight.' 'No, did she? I envy him. Not, of course, that I've the smallest desire that Fanny should bestow such a look upon me, but I wish that you would.

Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.

Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

Sometimes I think prostitution and slavery may be the actual subjects of all fiction because of the way fiction exploits its characters.)

understand how, in the excitement produced in that border-warfare

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

I told you. We're going to IKEA." "Well, that's just fine. I really need some tea lights, a bookcase called Fanny, and a lamp you can't fit any normal bulbs into.

Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.

Yeah, I got the instructions straight from Seoras. That and a bunch of smart-ass comments about my education being sadly lacking and something about not knowing my arse from my ear or my elbow, and also something about me being a fanny, and I don't know what the hell that means. Fanny? Like a girl's name? I don't think so . . .

Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

By now it was clear that Calcifer did all the strong magic in the castle and Michael did all the hackwork, while Howl gadded off catching girls and exploiting the other two just as Fanny had exploited her.