Quotes By 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
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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
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
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding