[ henry fielding Quotes ]
Showing search results for Henry Fielding Quotes - 27 quotations by Henry Fielding - Dictionary Quotes
27 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)All nature wears one universal grin.
Nature
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 661 votes
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Fools and Foolishness
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 721 votes
Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.
Conscience
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 627 votes
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Fashion
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 676 votes
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Money
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 640 votes
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
Death and Dying
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 620 votes
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Death and Dying
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 597 votes
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Desire
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 661 votes
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Gossip
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 588 votes
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Money
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 557 votes
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Money
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 624 votes
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Reason
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 657 votes
One fool at least in every married couple.
Marriage
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 572 votes
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Education
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 654 votes
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Happiness
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 696 votes
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Envy
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 651 votes
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
Prudence
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 665 votes
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Common Sense
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 785 votes
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
Punishment
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 648 votes
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Books - Reading
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 590 votes
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Vice
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 613 votes
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Children
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 669 votes
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Appreciation
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 683 votes
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Law and Lawyers
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 625 votes
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Henry Fielding
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 554 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun