Henry Fielding Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

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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

• 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

• LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Food, Delight

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1841). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.683

• Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Witty, Money

  Henry Fielding (2007). “Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734”, p.523, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Happiness, Heart

  Henry Fielding (1992). “Tom Jones”, p.708, Wordsworth Editions

• A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Glasses, Laughing

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1997, Delphi Classics

• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Marriage, Heart

• There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Natural, Mark

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.72, 谷月社

• 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

  Love, Quality, May

• Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Eye, Break Out

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.111

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