Fielding

Famous quotes containing the word fielding:

“Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“[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.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)