Quotes from Henry Fielding

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

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.