Top 100 Quotes About Fanny
#1. Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.
Jane Austen
#2. 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
#3. Fanny believed their emotional landscapes were similar: Both were tenderhearted, headstrong, tough and vulnerable all at once.
Nancy Horan
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.
Neil Young
#9. The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
William Masters
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.
Chelsea Handler
#17. That you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
Jane Austen
#18. And for those of you who watched the last programme, I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's.
David Coleman
#19. She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#20. I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
Burton Richter
#21. In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, using her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister's waist with the other, as if she were crushing Mrs Merdle. 'No,
Charles Dickens
#22. By nineteen, I had found my look. Oversize T-shirts, bike shorts, and wrestling shoes. To prevent the silhouette from being too baggy, I would cinch it at the waist with my fanny pack.
Tina Fey
#23. Fanny's friendship was all that he had to cling to.
Jane Austen
#24. Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
Jane Austen
#25. Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Went down to give a mother's care, in the fulness of time, to Fanny's neglected children no less than to their own, and to leave that lady going into Society for ever and a day.
Charles Dickens
#27. He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time she gave up mothering and rested. "Nay," she had said. "I've started something, and now I wouldn't stop if I could, and I couldn't stop if I would.
James Alexander Thom
#28. I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you."
"What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!
Kami Garcia
#29. Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
Diana Wynne Jones
#30. I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.
Susanna Clarke
#31. She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.
Susanna Clarke
#32. For Mary, the world is something to be mastered, manipulated, and made; for Fanny, the world is a gift to be received with thanksgiving. Fanny is the eucharistic heroine, giving thanks in all times and places.
Peter J. Leithart
#33. Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other ... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#34. Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.
Diana Gabaldon
#35. A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.
Gillian Jacobs
#37. If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.
Shannon Hale
#38. Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
Don Sutton
#39. What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true ...
Erica Jong
#40. I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing.
David Eddings
#41. Fanny felt enlarged by his attentiveness. Was
Nancy Horan
#42. Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.'
'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people
Evelyn Waugh
#43. Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.
Susanna Clarke
#44. Daddy Jack and Fanny don't care what I do as long as I stay out of the kitchen. She looms over the stove, madly coating everything she cooks with cayenne pepper and several shakes of Tabasco.
Frances Mayes
#45. Also, I have a pouch below my belly, whereas I'd always had a thin waist before. Now there's this situation down there, low and grabbable. If it had a zipper, you could store stuff in there, like a fanny pack.
Anne Lamott
#46. Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
Jane Austen
#47. I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
George Seaton
#48. 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
#49. This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could do; or, at least, she would not be won by them nearly so soon, without the assistance of sentiment and feeling, and seriousness on serious subjects.
Jane Austen
#50. I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.
Anita Loos
#51. I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny," said Edmund affectionately, "must be beyond the reach of any sermons.
Jane Austen
#52. Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.
Gregory Maguire
#53. Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital of wounded men.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#54. We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .
Ingmar Bergman
#55. He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
Jane Austen
#56. I didn't think I'd end up divorced with three kids and a bucket fanny, but there you go.
Robert Bryndza
#57. Divorced him - hired a fucking shark lawyer - excuse the language." "No problem. Cops hear words like lawyer all the time." Fanny
J.D. Robb
#58. Fanny May Leak
Born Poplar, London 1886
Russell Ash
#59. To say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already.
Jane Austen
#60. As a woman, you have to choose between your fanny or your face. I chose my face.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Fanny Burney
#66. But authors before they write should read.
Fanny Burney
#67. I'm starting to see that
the less I think about it,
the less it's true.
Fanny Britt
#68. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
Fanny Brice
#69. 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
#70. I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. [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
#75. 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
#76. Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.
Fanny Brice
#77. There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.
Fanny Fern
#78. 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
#79. Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
#80. 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
#82. It has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
Fanny Burney
#83. When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Fanny Kemble
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. live in the moment and make it so beautifulthat it will be woth remembering
Fanny Crosby
#87. 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
#88. To her, the name of father was another name for love.
Fanny Fern
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. But the time draws on for experience and observation to take the place of instruction: if
Fanny Burney
#92. To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
Fanny Burney
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
Fanny Fern
#96. All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
#97. They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
Fanny Kemble
#98. 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
#99. Waiting for the bus on Sherbrooke today is like waiting to die.
Or what I imagine it would be like.
Fanny Britt
#100. Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble
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