Henry Fielding on goodness
Henry Fielding88 quotes“Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.”
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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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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 FieldingHenry Fielding 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 FieldingHenry Fielding When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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