Henry Fielding quotes - page 3

This story will not go down. (Henry Fielding)
...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. View quote
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To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required. View quote
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Oh The roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef. View quote
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Distinction without a difference. View quote
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The dusky night rides down the sky, And ushers in the morn The hounds all join in glorious cry, The huntsman winds his horn And a-hunting we will go. View quote
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...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them. View quote
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Amiable weakness. View quote
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Republic of letters. View quote
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. View quote
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. (Henry Fielding)
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. View quote
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress. View quote
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. View quote
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn. View quote
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. View quote
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Where the law ends tyranny begins. View quote
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. View quote
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The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. View quote
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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. View quote
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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. (Henry Fielding)
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. View quote
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Depend on me; never fear your enemies. I'll warrant we make more noise than they. View quote
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For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen. View quote
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They are the affectation of affectation. View quote
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