Fielding

Famous quotes containing the word fielding:

    “I look on it as no trifling effort of female strength to withstand the artful and ardent solicitations of a man that is thoroughly master of our hearts. Should we in the conflict come off victorious, it hardly pays us for the pain we suffer from the experiment ... and I still persist in it that such a behaviour in any man I love would rob me of that most pleasing thought, namely, the obligation I have to him for not making such a trial.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    “All places were now become irksome to her. She found it impossible to fly from infamy, unless she could at the same time fly from herself.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    “[I]f our reader should be neither informed nor amused, we shall be very sorry for his loss of time as well as our own.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)