Men Quotes by Henry Fielding

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

— Henry Fielding

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

— Henry Fielding

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

— Henry Fielding

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

— Henry Fielding

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

— Henry Fielding

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

— Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

— Henry Fielding

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

— Henry Fielding

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are…

— Henry Fielding

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

— Henry Fielding

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much…

— Henry Fielding

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

— Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also…

— Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really…

— Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

— Henry Fielding

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

— Henry Fielding

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition…

— Henry Fielding

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it,…

— Henry Fielding

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that…

— Henry Fielding

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be…

— Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted…

— Henry Fielding

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the…

— Henry Fielding

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send…

— Henry Fielding

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

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves…

— Henry Fielding

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man…

— Henry Fielding

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor…

— Henry Fielding

The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering…

— Henry Fielding

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover…

— Henry Fielding

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition…

— Henry Fielding

...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be…

— Henry Fielding

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a…

— Henry Fielding

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

— Henry Fielding

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

— Henry Fielding

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

— Henry Fielding

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

— Henry Fielding

“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest…

— Henry Fielding

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

— Henry Fielding

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is…

— Henry Fielding

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

— Henry Fielding