Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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 FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGMost men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDINGAll nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGIt may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
HENRY FIELDINGA lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
HENRY FIELDINGThe constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
HENRY FIELDINGFor 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 FIELDINGWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGThere cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDINGThe greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
HENRY FIELDING