Henry Fielding Quotes

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps...

By Henry Fielding

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

By Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts

By Henry Fielding

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

By Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

By Henry Fielding

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim

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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

By Henry Fielding

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

By Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.

By Henry Fielding

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

By Henry Fielding

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

By Henry Fielding

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

By Henry Fielding

Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue...

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

By Henry Fielding

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

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I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

By Henry Fielding

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

By Henry Fielding

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

By Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

By Henry Fielding

Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

By Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

By Henry Fielding

My angel, cries Booth, it delights me to hear you talk thus, and for a reason you little guess; for I am assured that one who can so heroically endure adversity, will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former, is not likely to be transported with the latter.

By Henry Fielding

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

By Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

By Henry Fielding