We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Henry Fielding Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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.
One fool at least in every married couple.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
All nature wears one universal grin.
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.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
