Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDINGHandsome is that handsome does.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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