Author: Henry Fielding

Quotes

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

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

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

- Henry Fielding

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

- 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

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

- Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

- Henry Fielding

All nature wears one universal grin.

All nature wears one universal grin.

- 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

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

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