All Henry Fielding Quotes
- We must eat to live, and not live to eat. Eat
- Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and… All
- A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a… Accurate
- The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation Affectation
- The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded… Animal
- the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. Consists
- for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to… All
- Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune. Fortune
- To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice… Age
- Enough is equal to a feast. Equal
- Life may as properly be called an art as any other. Any
- Penny saved is a penny got. Funny
- Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. Accusation
- Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Best
- A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. Accompanied
- LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. All
- 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… Art
- Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Appearance
- We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. Book
- No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress. Beauty
- I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. Ask
- For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if… Any
- Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Adversity
- It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Been
- Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. All