Henry Fielding

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

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

All nature wears one universal grin.

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

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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

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.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.

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

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

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

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

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

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

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

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.

In a debate rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

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

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty and they will receive you into their bosoms.

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!

These kind of hair-breadth missings of happiness look like the insults of fortune.

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

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

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

Let no man be sorry he has done good because others have done evil.

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

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dancing begets warmth which is the parent of wantonness. It is Sir the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

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

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.

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

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.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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

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

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.