Fanny Burney quotes

" I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. " # Confession # Poverty and The Poor # Shame

" For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. " # Theater # Friends and Friendship # Confession

" There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. " # Travel and Tourism

" To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. " # Quotations

" While we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old! " # Quotations

" A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation. " # Quotations

" I cannot sleep--great joy is as restless as great sorrow. " # Quotations

" Misery seeks not man, but man misery. " # Quotations