Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDINGWhat is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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He 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.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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