Sarah Fielding

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best…

— Sarah Fielding

What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a…

— Sarah Fielding

[S]haring in common, without any thought of separate property, had ever been their friendly practice, from their first connection.

— Sarah Fielding

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others…

— Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and…

— Sarah Fielding

I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the…

— Sarah Fielding

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of…

— Sarah Fielding

[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,…

— Sarah Fielding

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or…

— Sarah Fielding

The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out…

— Sarah Fielding

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

— Sarah Fielding

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes…

— Sarah Fielding

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

— Sarah Fielding

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions…

— Sarah Fielding

[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They…

— Sarah Fielding

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the…

— Sarah Fielding

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

— Sarah Fielding

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the…

— Sarah Fielding

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching…

— Sarah Fielding

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to…

— Sarah Fielding

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently…

— Sarah Fielding

Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their…

— Sarah Fielding

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate…

— Sarah Fielding

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled…

— Sarah Fielding

[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was…

— Sarah Fielding