# Evelina

- Author: [Frances Burney](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina

## Quotes

> A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/a-private-ball.md)

> Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/unused-to-the.md)

> 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!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/tired-ashamed-and.md)

> A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/a-youthful-mind.md)

> he said, 'Madam—may I presume?'—and stopped, offering to take my hand. I...could scarce forbear laughing. 'Allow me, Madam,' continuing he, affectedly breaking off every half moment, 'the honour and happiness...the happiness and honor...'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/he-said-madam-may.md)

> 'No, Madam,' cried I, '—only—only I did not know that gentleman,—and so,—and so I thought—I intended—I—'
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> Overpowered by all that had passed, I had not strength to make my mortifying explanation; — my spirits quite failed me, and I burst into tears.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/no-madam-cried.md)

> Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/remember-my-dear.md)

> I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/i-looked-about.md)

> it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/it-has-been.md)

> To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind.

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> I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-burney/evelina/i-am-too.md)