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 FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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