A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDINGGuilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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