Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGHandsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGWine and youth are fire upon fire.
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 FIELDINGIt is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDINGSome 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 FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGThere’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGThe woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING