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 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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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