A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed and puzzled… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
