black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Media News Value Word Worth
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDING

Injury Reason Trust Yourself
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING

Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Attitude Conversation Goodness Happiness Possible
The 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 FIELDING

Correction Judgement Life Lying Oneself Rule
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Flattery Himself Man Praise
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING

Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDING

Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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 FIELDING

Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDING

Evil Goodness Man Sorry
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
HENRY FIELDING

Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
HENRY FIELDING

Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Game Human Leaving Life Security

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Fielding Quotes