Famous quotes containing the words frances burney, frances and/or burney:
“As to the bride, she is blithe as the month; if one can compare in any degree a weed of December, with the fragrance of May; for a weed in truth it is, and a weed not in its first prime.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God’s Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.”
—Dorothy Frances Gurney (1858–1932)
“The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)