A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding
All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Henry Fielding
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
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.
Henry Fielding
One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding
Read in order to live.
Henry Fielding
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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 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
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Henry Fielding
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Henry Fielding
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Henry Fielding
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1707-04-22
Year of Death:
1754
Nationality:
English |
