Henry Fielding's Quotes

One fool at least in every married couple.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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

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.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

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

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

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.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

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

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

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

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.