Date: 1769

"If my ideas of things are right, the human mind is naturally virtuous; the business of education is therefore less to give us good impressions, which we have from nature, than to guard us against bad ones, which are generally acquired."

— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)

Date: 1776

"Ah, Stanley! I have no hopes of making any impression on her heart, either at Delville, or in Berkeley-square."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"The being a prisoner, was the only species of calamity she had not yet experienced; her mind was impressed with horror at the idea, and whilst her worse than savage landlady, went out to seek a constable, she stole softly out of the house, and fled she knew not whither."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"But remember, my sister--"They never knew to love, that knew to change;" and be assured, that no other woman can ever make the slightest impression upon the heart of your sincerely affectionate brother."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"When Dr. Johnson speaks, we listen with respect and admiration, and feel our minds impressed with such an attentive kind of veneration, as I imagine was paid to the oracles of old."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"No, Stanley! neither Miss Harrison, nor any other woman I have seen in this kingdom, has made any impression on my heart; tho' I acknowledge I have beheld much beauty here, and that the lady I have named has charms sufficient, both of mind and person, to inspire the tenderest passion in a vacant...

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1776

"But I have other visions still more dreadful--spectres, indeed, that have long stampt indelible impressions on my heart and mind."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1778, 1779

"Indeed, I could but ill support her former yearly visits to the respectable mansion at Howard Grove; pardon me, dear Madam, and do not think me insensible of the honour which your Ladyship's condescension confers upon us both; but so deep is the impression which the misfortunes of her mother hav...

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"But I am happy to observe, that he seems to have made no impression upon your heart, and therefore a very little care and prudence may secure you from those designs which I fear he has formed."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"For, when I observed the artless openness, the ingenuous simplicity of her nature; when I saw that her guileless and innocent soul fancied all the world to be pure and disinterested as herself, and that her heart was open to every impression with which love, pity, or art might assail it."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)