Quotes by Henry Fielding

• There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
• The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
• The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
• Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
• 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.
• One fool at least in every married couple.
• Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
• There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
• We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
• What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
• 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.
• Where the law ends tyranny begins.
• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
• Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
• All nature wears one universal grin.
• Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
• 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.
• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
• 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!
• A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it 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.
• A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
• Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
• Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
• Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
• Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
• 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.
• I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
• If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
• It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
• Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of 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.
• Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
• Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.