Top 100 Quotes About Fanny
#1. The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
Fanny Kemble
#2. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Fanny Fern
#3. I felt a confusion unspeakable at again seeing him, from the recollection of the ridotto adventure: nor did my situation lessen it; for I was seated between Madame Duval and Sir Clement, who seemed as little as myself to desire Lord Orville's presence. Indeed,
Fanny Burney
#4. An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.
Fanny Kemble
#5. We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Fanny Burney
#7. I'm starting to see that
the less I think about it,
the less it's true.
Fanny Britt
#8. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
Fanny Brice
#9. Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!
Fanny Burney
#10. Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.
Jane Austen
#11. I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble
#12. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
Fanny Crosby
#13. In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
#15. [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.
Fanny Kemble
#16. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.
Barbara Pym
#17. Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
Fanny Kemble
#18. Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.
Fanny Brice
#19. There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.
Fanny Fern
#20. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
Fanny Howe
#21. Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
#22. The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble
#24. It has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
Fanny Burney
#25. When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Fanny Kemble
#26. Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
Fanny Fern
#27. I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
Fanny Burney
#28. Fanny believed their emotional landscapes were similar: Both were tenderhearted, headstrong, tough and vulnerable all at once.
Nancy Horan
#29. live in the moment and make it so beautifulthat it will be woth remembering
Fanny Crosby
#30. I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
Fanny Fern
#31. To her, the name of father was another name for love.
Fanny Fern
#32. I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
Fanny Fern
#33. I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.
Trent Lott
#34. Mr. Grey will see you in a few minutes. Would you like a refreshment while you wait? Coffee, soda, tea ... ?" "Gravy," I say.
Fanny Merkin
#35. But the time draws on for experience and observation to take the place of instruction: if
Fanny Burney
#36. To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
Fanny Burney
#37. What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
Fanny Fern
#38. It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.
Fanny Burney
#39. When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
Fanny Fern
#40. All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
#41. They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
Fanny Kemble
#42. There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
Fanny Burney
#43. I held onto Caeden's neck with one hand and used the other to keep my dress from flashing my fanny at any unsuspecting woodland creatures. The sight might shock them to death.
Micalea Smeltzer
#44. Waiting for the bus on Sherbrooke today is like waiting to die.
Or what I imagine it would be like.
Fanny Britt
#45. 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
#46. Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble
#47. Children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
Fanny Kemble
#48. But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing world, even though our judgments condemn our compliance! However, since the die is cast, we must endeavor to make the best of it.
Fanny Burney
#49. 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
#50. Are you ready for my love gun?" he says.
Uh-oh. "What's a love gun? Is that a sex toy?"
"No," he says. "I'm talking about my penis."
"Oh," I say. "Then yes. Fire away
Fanny Merkin
#53. Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.
Fanny Kemble
#54. A sacred burden is this life ye bear,
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly;
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
Fanny Kemble
#55. 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
#56. So I stare at the beautiful brand-new crinoline dress that's mine alone with no whiff of mothballs. Even so, it droops a little.
Fanny Britt
#57. One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
Barbra Streisand
#58. The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
Fanny Fern
#59. Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.
Neil Young
#60. News flash, Mr Grey: This isn't 1950 or whatever. Your sexual tastes aren't as shocking or as deviant as you think.
Fanny Merkin
#61. The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
William Masters
#62. I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.
'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.
'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.
Allegra Goodman
#63. It is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them.
Fanny Burney
#64. For the last time, it is a pouch, not a fanny pack. How come no one sees the difference?" "There is no difference. That's why no one can see it.
K.F. Breene
#65. One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
Fanny Fern
#66. He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
Bille August
#67. 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
#68. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Fanny Brice
#69. It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.
Fanny Mendelssohn
#70. Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.
Fanny Kemble
#71. We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard and wrote it backward - Menlove Fanny - and we all fell around laughing. She got into big trouble, but she didn't seem to mind. She had no fear.
Peter FitzSimons
#72. A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#73. O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
Fanny Burney
#74. Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Fanny Brice
#75. In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ!
Fanny Burney
#76. 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
#77. Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Fanny Fern
#78. 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
#79. For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
Fanny Brice
#81. To be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
Fanny Burney
#82. I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.
Fanny Fern
#83. Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
Fanny Fern
#84. I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Fanny Burney
#85. Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
Fanny Crosby
#86. While we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
Fanny Burney
#87. Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
Fanny Kemble
#88. [On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.
Fanny Kemble
#89. Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
Fanny Brice
#90. The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.
Chelsea Handler
#91. Walmart suddenly smells like a prosti-tot pageant.
Fanny Merkin
#92. Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big fat sausage.
Fanny Britt
#93. Those days were easy in comparison with
Fanny Blake
#95. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
John Keats
#96. Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!
Fanny Fern
#97. That you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
Jane Austen
#98. Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
Fanny Kemble
#99. It is not enough to have a song on your lips.
You must also have a song in your heart.
Fanny Crosby
#100. And for those of you who watched the last programme, I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's.
David Coleman
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