black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding

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
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDING

Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDING

Born Dog Eyes Open Wonder
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING

Defense Protection Soldier Woman
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Blood Brave Food Heart
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING

Blame Guilty Quick
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING

Evil Money Root
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
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDING

Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDING

Capability Charity Happiness Oneself Person Rich
The 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 FIELDING

Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird
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
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDING

Enemy Fight Happiness Hate
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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Fielding Quotes