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 FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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