Quotes By 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!

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

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.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

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.

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

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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.