Quotes from Henry Fielding

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.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

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

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

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

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

All Nature wears one universal grin.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

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

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

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

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

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

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.