Quotes from Sarah Fielding

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

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

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

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 desire of the good and happiness of its object.

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

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

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

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