Henry Fielding
27 quotations
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
One fool at least in every married couple.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
All nature wears one universal grin.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.