Author: Henry Fielding

Quotes

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.

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

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

- Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding

All nature wears one universal grin.

All nature wears one universal grin.

- Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

- Henry Fielding

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

- Henry Fielding

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

- 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.

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

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

- Henry Fielding

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