Dear Reader Quotes by Fanny Fern

“I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.”

— Fanny Fern

“I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.”

— Fanny Fern

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in…

— Fanny Fern

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

— Fanny Fern

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

— Fanny Fern

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

— Fanny Fern

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

— Fanny Fern

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

— Fanny Fern

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

— Fanny Fern

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

— Fanny Fern

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

— Fanny Fern

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

— Fanny Fern

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!

— Fanny Fern

I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am…

— Fanny Fern

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

— Fanny Fern