41 Henry Fielding Quotes - BrainyQuote

English - Novelist April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754English - Novelist - 4/22/1707 - 10/8/1754

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.Henry Fielding

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

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Heart Taste Elegant

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

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Heads Tenderness Prudence

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding

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Plague Making Money Devil

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.Henry Fielding

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Imagined Compliment Critics

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

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Corrupted Companions Liable

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.Henry Fielding

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Incorruptible Conscience

Where the law ends tyranny begins.Henry Fielding

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.Henry Fielding

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Parent Dancing Warmth

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.Henry Fielding

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Glad Folks Rail

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.Henry Fielding

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Honesty Receive Favor

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.Henry Fielding

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Widows Wager Wedding Day

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.Henry Fielding

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Devil Plague Making Money

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.Henry Fielding

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Describe Species Manners

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.Henry Fielding

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Deserve Bear Contempt

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.Henry Fielding

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Likely Bear Former

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. - Henry Fielding

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.Henry Fielding

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Accusation Quick Ears

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

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Principle Trial Honest

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.Henry Fielding

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Root Fruit Evil

All nature wears one universal grin. - Henry Fielding

All nature wears one universal grin.Henry Fielding

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Wears Grin Universal

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.Henry Fielding

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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

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Delight Appetite Properly

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding

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Consists Newspaper

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. - Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.Henry Fielding

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Rich Man Prove Rogue

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.Henry Fielding

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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.Henry Fielding

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.Henry Fielding

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Tasting Thousand Scarcely

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

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Tongue Great Joy Circumstances

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.Henry Fielding

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Envy Great Souls Base

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.Henry Fielding

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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 false recommendations into the World!Henry Fielding

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They Say False Send

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.Henry Fielding

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

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Animal Proud Universe

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.Henry Fielding

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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.Henry Fielding

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Inspires Fashion Desire

One fool at least in every married couple.Henry Fielding

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Fool Married Couples

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.Henry Fielding

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Compliment Critics Imagined

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.Henry Fielding

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.Henry Fielding

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Adversity Hardly

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.Henry Fielding

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Characteristic Whim Affectation

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

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Correct Folly Mark

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