Henry Fielding quotes - page 4

A crime, which, though perhaps not considered by law as the highest, is in truth and in fact, the blackest sin, which can contaminate the hands, or pollute the soul of man. (Henry Fielding)

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

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He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? "Are not you," said Cleostratus, "ashamed to admonish a drunken man?" - To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so.

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Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.

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Much may be said on both sides.

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Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic...

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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

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To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. (Henry Fielding)

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

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Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

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. . . when the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

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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.

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It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

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For clergy are men as well as other folks.

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Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

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Covent Garden Journal (11 January 1752)

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For so extravagant was the affection of that fond parent, that, provided his child would but consent to be miserable with the husband he chose, he cared not at what price he purchased him. (Henry Fielding)

And very obedient to me she was when a little child, before you took her in hand and spoiled her, by filling her head with a pack of court notions. Why-why-why-did I not overhear you telling her she must behave like a princess? You have made a Whig of the girl!

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Ah, Tom, Tom, thou art a liquorish dog.

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"But when the philosopher heard, a day or two afterwards, that the fortress of virtue had already been subdued, he began to give a large scope to his desires. His appetite was not of that squeamish kind which cannot feed on a dainty because another hath tasted it.

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Things may be fitting to be done, which are not fitting to be boasted of; for by the perverse judgment of the world, that often becomes the subject of censure, which is, in truth, not only innocent but laudable. What can be more innocent than the indulgence of a natural appetite? Or what more laudable than the propagation of our species?

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Henry Fielding

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: April 22, 1707
Died: October 8, 1754
Quotes count: 108
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