Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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In 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.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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