black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Henry Fielding

There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING

Defense Protection Soldier Woman
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness People Praise Worth
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING

Eat Live One Liner
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDING

Enemy Friendship Wine
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING

Destruction Devil God Money Sick Yourself
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
Giving 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 FIELDING

Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful See
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDING

Man Sex Woman Worth
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDING

Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
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
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
HENRY FIELDING

Devil Freedom Himself Work
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDING

Character Man Woman
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Place Stay Travel Writing
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDING

Food Happiness Kind Love Object Ourselves Word
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDING

Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING

Book Company Corruption
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDING

Charity Difficult Evidence Fools Man Rich
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDING

Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
HENRY FIELDING

Animal Man Proud Universe
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

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Fielding Quotes