Quotes from Henry Fielding

One of my illustrious predecessors.

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

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!

The republic of letters.

Oh, the roast beef of England,And old England's roast beef!

This story will never go down.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

I am as sober as a judge.

Let me advise you, Madam, leave off your damn'd adulterated water, your tea, and take to wine. It will paint your face better than vermilion, and put more honesty in your heart than all the sermons you can read.

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

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

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

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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.

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

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

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

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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