Quotes by Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.

Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially by a Person of Adamss Figure, returned the Favour with so much Gratitude, that the Parsons Nostrils likewise began to look a little redder than usual.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today.

This story will never go down.

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today.

All nature wears one universal grin.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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.