Henry Fielding Quotes

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• Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

  Henry Fielding

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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

  Henry Fielding

  Inspirational, Adversity, Men

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• I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

  Henry Fielding

  Blessing, Inner Peace, Needs

  Henry Fielding (2012). “Joseph Andrews”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

  Henry Fielding

  Buying, Talent, Pleasure

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• The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

  Henry Fielding

  People, Praise, Recommendations

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy, James P. Browne (1871). “Preface. Essay on the life and genius of Henry Fielding, esq. Love in several masques, a comedy. The temple beau, a comedy. The author's farce; with a puppet shew, called The pleasures of the town. The coffee house politician; or, The justice caught in his own trap, a comedy. The tragedy of tragedies; or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great”, p.186

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• What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

  Henry Fielding

  Vices, Literature, May

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• We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

  Henry Fielding

  Book, Reading, Liable

  John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.7, Oberon Books

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• We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

  Henry Fielding

  Eating And Drinking, Eating, Italian Food

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy, James P. Browne (1871). “The letter writers; or, A new way to keep a wife at home, a farce. The Grub-street opera. The lottery, a farce. The modern husband, a comedy. The mock doctor; or, The dumb lady cured, a comedy. The Covent Garden tragedy. The debauchees; or, The Jesuit caught, a comedy. The miser, a comedy”, p.435

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• There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

  Henry Fielding

  Animal, Church, Literature

  Henry Fielding (1861). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Fielding: Amelia”, p.407

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• It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

  Henry Fielding

  Death, Goodbye, Farewell

  Amelia bk. 3, ch. 4 (1751)

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• Success is a fruit of slow growth.

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  Success, Growth, Fruit

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• A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

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  Heart, Broken, Despair

  Henry Fielding (1882). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”

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• Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

  Henry Fielding

  Guilt, Ears, Shame

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.150

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• Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

  Henry Fielding

  Riches, Poverty, Reason

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

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  Wise, Men, Good Man

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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

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  Women, Character, Men

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• There's one fool at least in every married couple.

  Henry Fielding

  Couple, Fool, Married

  'Amelia' (1751) bk. 9, ch. 4

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• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

  Henry Fielding

  Hilarious, Witty, Children

  Henry Fielding (1780). “The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”, p.71

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• Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

  Henry Fielding

  Education, Learning, School

  'Joseph Andrews' (1742) bk. 3, ch. 5

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• A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

  Henry Fielding

  Letters, Recommendations, Countenance

  Henry Fielding (1749). “The history of Tom Jones: a foundling”, p.232

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• We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Opposites, Vices, Virtue

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

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  Men, Errors, May

  Henry Fielding (1824). “The Works of Henry Fielding, with a Life of the Author: Plays”, p.199

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• Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

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  Men, Enemy, Foundation

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1413, Delphi Classics

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• A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Hate, Heart

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The works of Henry Fielding, esq: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.152

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