Life Quote by Frances Burney Download Open image ““In all ranks and all stations of life, how strangely characters and manners differ!”” — Frances Burney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Remember, nobility knows no race or station. Always judge a man by his heart and actions.” — Lorna Seilstad Copy Share Image
“One's own character inevitably comes to resemble the things one spends most of one's day with.” — Antiphon Copy Share Image
“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“I don’t live life a whole lot differently than some of the more notable characters in my books. It has been a road less… — P.S. Meronek Copy Share Image
“My position is for one to be thought of as a CHARACTER is totally different from one having CHARACTER.” — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
“True character is marked by the humbleness of one's heart.” — Vanessa Marie Dewsbury Copy Share Image
“Being of sound mind and character goes a lot further than any reputation!” — Johnny Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.” — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw, perpetually startled.They weren't sensible. But they behaved themselves for a while. They were frank, earthy even, among themselves; but they were discreet. They were invisible, I wasn't even required to know their names. I underestimated their… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share
“What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ...She is too… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“Mortimer Delvile was tall and finely formed, his features, though not handsome, were full of expression, and a noble openness of manners and address… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“it is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“Lord Orville seemed by no means to think the Captain worthy an argument, upon a subject concerning which he had neither knowledge nor feeling.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“The world...is too full of real evil for me at least, to cause one moment of unnecessary uneasiness to any of its poor pilgrims.… — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
“The civility of young Branghton, I much suspect, was merely the result of his father's commands” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image