Quotes by Henry Fielding
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
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.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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