To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
HENRY FIELDINGGiving 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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.
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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.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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