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Quotes from Henry Fielding

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
~ Henry Fielding
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
~ Henry Fielding
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.
~ Henry Fielding
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
~ Henry Fielding
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous
~ Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
~ Henry Fielding
O! more than Gothic ignorance.
~ Henry Fielding
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
~ Henry Fielding
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
~ Henry Fielding
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
~ Henry Fielding
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
~ Henry Fielding
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
~ Henry Fielding
The dusky night rides down the sky,And ushers in the morn;The hounds all join in glorious cry,The huntsman winds his horn,And a-hunting we will go.
~ Henry Fielding
They are the affectation of affectation.
~ Henry Fielding
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
~ Henry Fielding
Distinction without a difference.
~ Henry Fielding
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
~ Henry Fielding
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
~ Henry Fielding
Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.
~ Henry Fielding
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
~ Henry Fielding
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
An amiable weakness.
~ Henry Fielding