Frances Burney

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. ↗

— Frances Burney

#imperial #insensibility #kinds #most #moves

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance. ↗

— Frances Burney

#alike #another #catch #contract #countenance

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

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. ↗

— Frances Burney

#anything #create #cruel #despite #earth

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. ↗

— Frances Burney

#continually #given #half #mean #opinion