- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Fanny speaks this quote during a conversation with Henry, who has come to Portsmouth to visit Fanny. When he asks for Fanny’s advice on a moral business problem, he says that Fanny is his ultimate moral compass, and Fanny responds with the above.
Fanny has spent much of the book following her own set of principles and values, staying faithful to them even when others have implored her to change her mind, such as during the play or after Henry’s proposal. Fanny’s commitment to listening to her own morality rather than public opinion serves her well, and the above quote…