Fanny Burney Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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".

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

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Pleasure, Dissipation

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

• 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

• We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

  Fanny Burney

  Complaining, Affliction, Pleasure

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

• When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

  Fanny Burney

  Pain, Disappointment, Reality

  Fanny Burney (2011). “Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World”, p.22, The Floating Press

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