Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDINGMost men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDINGWe must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGSome folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGSome 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.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGNever trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDINGThe life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
HENRY FIELDINGWine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDINGGiving 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.
HENRY FIELDINGNow 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.
HENRY FIELDINGIn a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING