Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
-
-
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDING -
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.
HENRY FIELDING -
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDING -
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING -
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDING -
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING -
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDING -
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
HENRY FIELDING -
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING -
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
HENRY FIELDING -
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING -
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDING -
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
HENRY FIELDING -
Penny saved is a penny got.
HENRY FIELDING -
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDING