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Henry Fielding Quotes


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

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Read in order to live.

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

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.

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

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

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.