Henry Fielding Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Beauty may be the object of liking
great qualities of admiration
good ones of esteem
but love only is the object of love.
great qualities of admiration
good ones of esteem
but love only is the object of love.
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs
The excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
If thou hast seen all these without knowing what beauty is, thou hast no eyes; if without feeling its power, thou hast no heart.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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.
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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.
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place.
There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself