Henry Fielding Quotes (85 Quotes)

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things.

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

I did not mean to abuse the cloth I only said your conclusion was a non sequitur. You are another, cries the sergeant.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Amiable weakness.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived

O more than Gothic ignorance.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

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!

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

All nature wears one universal grin.

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.

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

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Distinction without a difference.

For clergy are men as well as other folks.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

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

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.

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

This story will not go down.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven

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.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one.

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.

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

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Republic of letters.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

It hath been thought a vast commendation of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe but surely it is much greater and nobler applause, that they appear to think.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

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

To say the truth, every physician almost hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.

The dusky night rides down the sky, And ushers in the morn The hounds all join in glorious cry, The huntsman winds his horn And a-hunting we will go.

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

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

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.