Sarah Fielding Quotes

Sarah Fielding — British Author born on November 08, 1710, died on April 09, 1768

Sarah Fielding was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was the author of The Governess, or The Little Female Academy, which was the first novel in English written especially for children, and had earlier achieved success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple... (wikipedia)

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.

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

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

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

Sarah Fielding Quotes

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