Henry Fielding Quotes

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

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

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

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

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

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

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

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

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

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Enough is equal to a feast.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

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

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

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

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

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

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

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

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

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

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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

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.

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

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.