Henry Fielding - Quotes

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. ---->>>

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. ---->>>