Fantomina and Other Works
A source page for quotes linked to Eliza Haywood.
“Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.”
“Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.”
“Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.”
“The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.”
“Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.”
“Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.”