Burney/objects

Famous quotes containing the words burney and/or objects:

“This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in the world, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... ‘Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)

“All objects look well through an arch.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)