Henry Fielding Quotes

Henry Fielding (42)

Birth:	22nd April, 1707
Death:	8th October, 1754
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist

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• 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

  Topics in English Proverbs

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

  Henry Fielding

  Topics in Death

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Word, Food

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• Where the law ends tyranny begins.

  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

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

  Henry Fielding

• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

  Henry Fielding

• What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding