Henry Fielding Quotes

"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
(Related: Men, Compliment, World)

"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Prudence, Tenderness)

"The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Love, Devil)

"The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Affectation, Whim)

"There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Universe)

"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Happiness)

"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
(Related: Men, Compliment, Now, Reality, World)

"One fool at least in every married couple."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Fool)

"Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of."
- Henry Fielding

"There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Love, Folly)

"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Books)

"What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Virtue, May, Today, Tomorrow, Vice)

"When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Children, Nothing)

"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Duty)

"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
(Related: Wedding, Day, Man, Widows)

"Where the law ends tyranny begins."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Law, Tyranny)

"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Friend, Enemy, First, Wine)

"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Adversity)

"All nature wears one universal grin."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Nature)

"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Envy, Worth)

"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Science, Appearance, Desire, Fashion)

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Poverty, Reason, Will)

"Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Conscience)

"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
(Related: Art, Men, Nature)

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: News, Words)

"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
(Related: Charity, Fool, Man)

"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Heart, Taste)

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Adversity, Man)

"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Dancing)

"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
(Related: Change, Heart, Circumstances, Joy, Tongue)

"Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Guilt, Quick)

"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
(Related: Soul, Greatness, Adversity, Mind, Prosperity, Will)

"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Men, Manners)

"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Money, God, Devil, Will)

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Death, Dying)

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Love, Scandal, Tea)

"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
(Related: Food, Delight, Favorite, Word)

"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Money, God, Devil, Will)

"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Money, Evil)

"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Honesty, Fool, Will, Wit)