Sarah Fielding Quotes

When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some man for a p...

By Sarah Fielding

Thus the reader who hath most truly considered and digested the sentiments which he reads must be a man of the best taste and must find most p...

By Sarah Fielding

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properly be styled T...

By Sarah Fielding

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

By Sarah Fielding

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

By Sarah Fielding

The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that all their p...

By Sarah Fielding

The gentleman took three or four strides across the room, looked out of the window once or twice, and then turned to me with an awkward bow an...

By Sarah Fielding

Miss C_____ is ... remarkably neat in her person and is uncommonly diligent in every part of useful economy.... She hath indeed under her fath...

By Sarah Fielding

Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one ...

By Sarah Fielding

If variety is capable of filling every hour of the married state with the highest joy, then might it be said that Lord and Lady Dellwyn were c...

By Sarah Fielding

If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of ...

By Sarah Fielding

I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation re...

By Sarah Fielding

I made him a low curtsy and thanked him for the honor he intended me, but told him I had no kind of ambition to be his upper servant.... I the...

By Sarah Fielding

I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of ble...

By Sarah Fielding

I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air a...

By Sarah Fielding

I loved reading, and had a great desire of attaining knowledge; but whenever I asked questions of any kind whatsoever, I was always told, 'suc...

By 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 speak for me.

By 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 ...

By Sarah Fielding

His lordship pronounced his assent to take to wife his destined prey (in the words 'I will'), with a voice as audible as generally breaks fort...

By Sarah Fielding

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

By Sarah Fielding

For experience showed her that she had not, by marrying a man of a large fortune, obtained any great proportion of property which she could ca...

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But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended ...

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But this fully answered John's purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly admired him; and he concluded by again repeatin...

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And now behold the goddess seated on her throne ... receiving the adulation of her worshipper.... An adulation, which translated into plain En...

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

By Sarah Fielding

[F]or vanity disappointed will always find an enemy on whom to bestow the utmost hatred and dislike; and the woman who hath been thus entangle...

By 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 endeavor stro...

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[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness a...

By Sarah Fielding

'Miss C_____'s father,' says Betty, 'had much better have bred his daughter a housewife, and then, mayhap, she might have got her a husband, w...

By Sarah Fielding