Frances Burney Quote

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.


Evelina (1778)


Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.