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Henry Fielding Quotes

Type: Novelist Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: April 22, 1707 Date of Death: October 8, 1754 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Henry Fielding Related Authors: Aldous Huxley E. M. Forster Samuel Richardson Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy William Makepeace Thackeray Angela Carter

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 A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding 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 A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. Henry Fielding Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding All nature wears one universal grin. Henry Fielding Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. Henry Fielding Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. Henry Fielding Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. 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 Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. Henry Fielding 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 I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. Henry Fielding If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Henry Fielding It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Henry Fielding Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding 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 Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. Henry Fielding Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. 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. Henry Fielding One fool at least in every married couple. Henry Fielding Read in order to live. Henry Fielding Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. Henry Fielding The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. Henry Fielding The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. Henry Fielding 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 There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. Henry Fielding There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. Henry Fielding There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. Henry Fielding We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. Henry Fielding What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. Henry Fielding When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. Henry Fielding When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Henry Fielding When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. Henry Fielding Where the law ends tyranny begins. Henry Fielding Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. Henry Fielding Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. Henry Fielding Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Henry Fielding

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