black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Devil Freedom Himself Work
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Humor Smart
All nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDING

Nature One Liner Smile Universe
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDING

Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDING

Death Deep Terrible
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDING

Art Description Manners Myself
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING

Evil Money Root
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Habit Nature Ourselves
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
HENRY FIELDING

Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
HENRY FIELDING

Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING

Children Fun Mischief Wasted Time
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING

Defense Protection Soldier Woman
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
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
HENRY FIELDING

Myself Religion Talk
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Media News Value Word Worth

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Fielding Quotes