Quotes by Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

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[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

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[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them…. They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods–if they do not make haste–will all be gone.

Believe

Marriage

Men

[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 impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

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Heart

Names

[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.

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Chiefs

Imagination

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

Education

Self

Vanity

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

Liberty

Reader

Use

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.

Flattery

Insolence

Opportunity

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.

Brother

Marriage

Romantic Love

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband’s dinner.

Husband

Latin

Marriage

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Quotes by Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

[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.

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

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

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.

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 believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband’s dinner.

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