Henry Fielding quotes

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. (Henry Fielding)
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.
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
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
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Henry Fielding
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
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
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. (Henry Fielding)
One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding
Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.
Henry Fielding
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
Henry Fielding
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
Henry Fielding
Penny saved is a penny got.
Henry Fielding
Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry Fielding
The dignity of history.
Henry Fielding
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things. (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.
Henry Fielding
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Henry Fielding
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding
We must eat to live and live to eat.
Henry Fielding