Famous quotes containing the words fanny burney, fanny and/or burney:
“Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! Theres no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.”
—Fanny Burney (17521840)
“here in hell
Were drinking tea from a Grecian Urn long after
Your Paphian Fanny let tubercles quell
Ethereal passion: I know it by your laughter!”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“We have been a-shopping ... all this morning, to buy silks, caps, gauzes, and so forth. The shops are really very entertaining, especially the mercers; there seem to be six or seven men belonging to each shop; and every one took care, by bowing and smirking, to be noticed.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)