Quotes by Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

English writer

Lived from: 1707 - 1754

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 april 1707 Died: 8 october 1754

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  • Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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  • Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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  • Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
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  • Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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  • Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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  • Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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  • The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
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  • There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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  • There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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  • There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
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  • Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
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  • Thy modesty's candle to thy merit.
    The Tragedy of Tragedies 1, 3
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  • We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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  • We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
    Joseph Andrews preface
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  • We endeavour to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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  • What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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  • When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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  • When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
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  • When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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  • Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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