Fielding

Famous quotes containing the word fielding:

    Essay writing is perhaps ... the easiest for the author and requires little more than what is called a fluency of words and a vivacity of expression to avoid dullness; but without ... a real foundation of matter ... an essay writer is very apt, like Dogberry in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, to think that if he had the tediousness of a king, he would bestow it all upon his readers.
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    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.
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)