Bangoura Fanny Quotes

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness ... ~ Fanny Kemble

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues ... ~ Fanny Fern

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. ~ Fanny Burney

You think I'm a geek now, don't you?" he jested.
She relaxed a little more. "No."
"First I say fanny. Now this."
She smiled. "Actually, I thought your fanny was cute." Her eyes widened. "The fanny," she corrected hastily. "I thought the fanny was cute. Your saying it, I mean."
He winked. "I prefer the first one."
She laughed. "I bet you do. ~ Dianne Duvall

Mock you!" repeated he earnestly, "no I revere you! I esteem and I admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling. ~ Fanny Burney

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. ~ Fanny Kemble

To say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already. ~ Jane Austen

To be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing! ~ Fanny Burney

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. ~ Fanny Burney

That you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny) ~ Jane Austen

Fanny Assingham had at this moment the sense as of a large heaped dish presented to her intelligence and inviting it to a feast
so thick were the notes of intention in this remarkable speech. ~ Henry James

It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me. ~ Fanny Crosby

Love wins when everything else will fail. ~ Fanny Jackson Coppin

Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous care with which she guides our otherwise erring feet, watches with feelings which none but a mother can know the gradual expansion of our youth to the riper yours of discretion. We may not think of it then, but it will be recalled to our minds in after years, when the gloomy grave or a fearful living separation has placed her far beyond our reach, and her sweet voice of sympathy and consolation for the various ills attendant upon us sounds in our ears no more. How deeply then we regret a thousand deeds that we have done contrary to her gentle admonitions! How we sign for those days once more, that we may retrieve what we have done amiss and make her kind heart glad with happiness! Alas! once gone they can never be recalled, and we grow mournfully sad with the bitter reflection. ~ Fanny Kelly

Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible. ~ Fanny Britt

You switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good. ~ Harry Cohn

They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind ... for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour. ~ Fanny Crosby

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man. ~ Fanny Kemble

O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70 - has ... O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70 - has the misfortune to be humpbacked, crooked legged, and rather deformed in his face. - But, in sober sadness, I am delighted with the Dean of Coleraine, whose picture this is, and which I have very lately read. The piety, the zeal, the humanity, goodness and humility of this charming old man have won my heart. Ah! who will not envy him the invaluable treasure! ~ Fanny Burney

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ~ Fanny Burney

Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, and though there might not be much in her first appearance to captivate, there was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations. She was small of her age, with no glow of complexion, nor any other striking beauty; exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice; but her air, though awkward, was not vulgar, her voice was sweet, and when she spoke her countenance was pretty. Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly; and Sir Thomas, seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating: but he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment; and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. ~ Jane Austen

Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging my errors. To ~ Fanny Burney

You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn! ~ Fanny Brice

Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed.
"Do listen. He's not wicked at all!" There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. " He isn't!" Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny.. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford. ~ Jane Austen

Usually plot is to fiction what form is to poetry. It lifts and fills the rambling language and presses it down into a single shape and sound. (85) ~ Fanny Howe

It is difficult to imagine Fanny [Price] engaged with poultry, or supervising apple-picking... her role as [as a clergyman's wife] suggested by Jane Austen was to be a gently moralizing one. She would strengthen Edmund's moral purposes and supply the shrewd assessment of the people around him which he clearly lacked. ~ Irene Collins

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six! ~ George Colman The Elder

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding
my stars!
I should never be able to support it! ~ Fanny Burney

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man. ~ Fanny Brice

Take the wold, but give me Jesus;
In His cross my trust shall be,
Till, with clearer, brighter vision
Face to face my Lord I see. ~ Fanny Crosby

There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, hardly any body listens. ~ Fanny Burney

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. ~ Fanny Burney

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ... ~ Fanny Fern

I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes me impatient at moments when I doubt if she was meant to. ~ A. C. Bradley

All these massive executive-power-consolidating, pound-you-up-the-fanny-whenever-the-urge-so-takes-me directives could simply be ordered not to exist anymore by me, as your next president, with the simple stroke of my pen. So ~ Cintra Wilson

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle. ~ Fanny Howe