He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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