Fanny Burney Quotes About Age

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  • I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  • an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

    Fanny Burney (1782). “Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress”, p.137
  • 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

  • while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

    Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics
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