Henry Fielding Quotes & Quotations

Henry Fielding Quotes

» 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.

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

» Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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

» Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

» There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

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

» A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

» When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

» There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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