Famous quotes containing the words burney and/or wrote:
“When once—which every body must be—you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion—caution—and sometimes causelessly.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)