Henry Fielding - Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. ---->>>
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. ---->>>
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ---->>>
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. ---->>>
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ---->>>
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. ---->>>
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. ---->>>

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. ---->>>
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. ---->>>
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. ---->>>
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ---->>>
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. ---->>>
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. ---->>>
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ---->>>
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. ---->>>
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. ---->>>
Where the law ends tyranny begins. ---->>>
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! ---->>>
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. ---->>>
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ---->>>
One fool at least in every married couple. ---->>>
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ---->>>
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ---->>>
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. ---->>>
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. ---->>>
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. ---->>>
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. ---->>>
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. ---->>>
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ---->>>
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ---->>>
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. ---->>>
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. ---->>>
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ---->>>
Biography
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners (wikipedia)