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.
HENRY FIELDINGLife may as properly be called an art as any other.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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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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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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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 are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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 newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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