Henry Fielding quotes - page 2

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 you will say a man is not young I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. (Henry Fielding)
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.
Henry Fielding
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Henry Fielding
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.
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.
Henry Fielding
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
Henry Fielding
It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
Henry Fielding
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry Fielding
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
Henry Fielding
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. (Henry Fielding)
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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.
Henry Fielding
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Henry Fielding
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation.
Henry Fielding
Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates.
Henry Fielding
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. (Henry Fielding)
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
Henry Fielding
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
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These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Henry Fielding
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding