Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGWhere the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGThe highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGMost men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
HENRY FIELDINGHe 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 FIELDINGNothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen 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 FIELDINGEnough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGWine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDINGHuman 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 FIELDINGWe must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDING