Henry Fielding Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

  Henry Fielding

  Queens, Business, Drunk

  Henry Fielding (1766). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq;: The coffee-house politician. The tragedy of tragedies. The letter-writers. The grub-street opera. The modern husband”, p.94

• Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Body, Pleasure

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

  Henry Fielding

  Buying, Talent, Pleasure

• The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

  Henry Fielding

  Friendship, Pleasure, Highest

  Henry Fielding (1811). “The History of Amelia”, p.191

• As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.

  Henry Fielding

  Fall, Use, World

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1527, Delphi Classics

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