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 FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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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.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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