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Quotes from Henry Fielding

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.
~ Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
~ Henry Fielding
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.
~ Henry Fielding
One fool at least in every married couple.
~ Henry Fielding
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
~ Henry Fielding
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
~ Henry Fielding
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
~ Henry Fielding
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
~ Henry Fielding
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
~ Henry Fielding
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
~ Henry Fielding
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
~ Henry Fielding
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
~ Henry Fielding
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
~ Henry Fielding
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
~ 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.
~ Henry Fielding
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
~ Henry Fielding
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
~ Henry Fielding
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
~ Henry Fielding
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
~ Henry Fielding
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
~ Henry Fielding
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
~ Henry Fielding
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
~ Henry Fielding
Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.
~ Henry Fielding