Famous Henry Fielding Quotations

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"One fool at least in every married couple."
by Henry Fielding
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
by Henry Fielding
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
by Henry Fielding
"His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage"
by Henry Fielding
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
by 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."
by Henry Fielding
"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."
by Henry Fielding
"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter."
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
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
by Henry Fielding
"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise."
by Henry Fielding
"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."
by 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."
by Henry Fielding
"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."
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
"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
"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
"When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief."
by Henry Fielding
"Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us."
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 than they really are."
by Henry Fielding
"It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived."
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
"Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."
by Henry Fielding
"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
"Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of."
by Henry Fielding
"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
by Henry Fielding
"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
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..."
by Henry Fielding
"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
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
"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
"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts."
by Henry Fielding
"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
"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
by Henry Fielding
"What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow."
by Henry Fielding
"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
by 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."
by Henry Fielding
"The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim"
by Henry Fielding
"Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you."
by Henry Fielding
"Every physician almost hath his favourite disease."
by Henry Fielding
"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts"
by Henry Fielding
"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
by Henry Fielding
"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


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