Frances Burney Zitate auf Englisch

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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

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

Frances Burney

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

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.

Frances Burney

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

Frances Burney

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.

Frances Burney

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Frances Burney

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

Frances Burney

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

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

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Frances Burney

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.

Frances Burney

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Frances Burney

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Frances Burney