Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDINGLove 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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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.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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.
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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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