Quotes By Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

All nature wears one universal grin.

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.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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!

One fool at least in every married couple.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

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.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.