black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Media News Value Word Worth
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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

Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Gossip Love Sweet Talk Tea
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING

Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Defeat Head Tender
Penny saved is a penny got.
HENRY FIELDING

Money One Liner Save
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
HENRY FIELDING

Blessing Greatness Myself Rich Satisfaction
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDING

Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDING

Errors Justice Leadership Man
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING

Best Cold Love Murder Tea
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
HENRY FIELDING

Creation Goodness Human Meditation Object
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDING

Fire One Liner Wine Youth
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDING

Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful See
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
HENRY FIELDING

Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING

Book Company Corruption
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDING

Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
HENRY FIELDING

Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Habit Nature Ourselves
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING

Excellence Heart Taste True
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning End Law One Liner

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Fielding Quotes