Sarah Fielding Quotes


There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.


Citations

Fielding, Sarah, and Jane Collier. The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable. Vol. 1, R. and J. Dodsley, 1754, p. 24.

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  • Born: November 8, 1710
  • Died: April 9, 1768
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

Sarah Fielding was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), thought to be the first novel in English aimed expressly at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744).