Henry Fielding Quotes

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to ...

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he ca...

Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed...

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act...

All nature wears one universal grin.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomo...

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

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorro...

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically sp...

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not...

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

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way...

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

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

This story will never go down.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, b...

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall...

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take car...

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I sho...

I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' t...