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 FIELDINGWhat is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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