black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Henry Fielding

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
HENRY FIELDING

Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING

Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
HENRY FIELDING

Company General Greatness Place Rule Woman
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
HENRY FIELDING

Argument Country Fight Himself Pieces
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING

Beautiful See
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
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
HENRY FIELDING

Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDING

Goodness Humor Smart
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Giving 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 FIELDING

Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING

Education Habit Nature Ourselves
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDING

Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDING

Injury Reason Trust Yourself

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Fielding Quotes