Blessing Quote by Sarah Fielding

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

— 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 most sincere…

— 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 I could…

— Sarah Fielding

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

— Sarah Fielding

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

— 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, 'til they…

— 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 rather, without…

— 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 her rival's…

— 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 the beauty…

— Sarah Fielding