Fanny Burney Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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!

  Fanny Burney

  Running, Hate, Jail

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12

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

  Fanny Burney

  Pain, Generosity, Giving

  "Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World".

• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Boredom, Giving

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

• ... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

  Fanny Burney

  Giving Up, Giving, Way

  Fanny Burney (1796). “Camilla: Or, a Picture of Youth”, p.220

• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

  Fanny Burney

  Happiness, Disappointment, Giving Up

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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