He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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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.
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