"There is nothing a man of good sense……" — Henry Fielding
"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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116 Quotes by Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding has 116 quotes on this site.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most…
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart…
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason
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Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking…
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men…
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
— Dirk Benedict
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
— Georges Bernanos
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with…
— John le Carre
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
— John Hospers
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I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
— Margrethe II of Denmark
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
— William Shakespeare
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When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy…
— Bob Parsons
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and…
— Khalil Gibran
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Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
— Shannon Miller
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