Henry Fielding Quotes

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding

Accusation, Guilt, Quick

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding

Love, Best, Tea

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding

Fool, Honesty, Favor

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding

Money, God, Devil

He that can 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 later.
Henry Fielding

Mind, Soul, Cannot

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding

Fool, Rich, Difficult

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding

Heart, Truly, Taste

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding

Food, Love, Sometimes

All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding

Nature, Universal, Grin

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding

Nature, Good, Men

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding

Change, Great, Heart

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

Best, Often, Defeated

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding

Parent, Dancing, Warmth

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

Science, Fashion, Rather

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding

Money, Evil, Often

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding

Great, Reason, Poverty

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding

Proud, Universe, Nor

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

Enemy, Friend, Wine

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding

Words, Same, Whether

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding

Adversity, Honest, Whether

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding

Men, Individual, Manners

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

Death, Dying, Terrible

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding

Money, God, Devil

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.
Henry Fielding

Great, Men, Reality

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: April 22, 1707

Died: October 8, 1754

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