Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
-
-
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING -
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
HENRY FIELDING -
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDING -
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING -
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
HENRY FIELDING -
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY 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 FIELDING -
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING -
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING -
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDING -
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING -
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING -
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING -
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDING -
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING