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Henry Fielding
63 quotes
“Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1731 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Quixote in England (1731), Act I, scene vi
“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1731 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
“Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1731 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Grub Street Opera (1731), Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Much may be said on both sides.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1732 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Covent Garden Tragedy (1732), Act I, scene vii
Also quoted by: Joseph Addison
“Enough is equal to a feast.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1732 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Covent Garden Tragedy (1732), Act V, scene 1
“The dusky night rides down the sky, And ushers in the morn; The hounds all join in glorious cry, The huntsman winds his horn, And a-hunting we will go.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1734 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A-Hunting We Will Go (1734), st. 1
“Depend on me; never fear your enemies. I'll warrant we make more noise than they.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1736 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eurydice Hissed: or A Word to the Wise (1736); in The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 4 (1775), p. 222
“He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1743 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jonathan Wild (1743, rev. 1754), Book III, ch. 7
“For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) first seen 1754 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1754), Introduction
“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.”
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Recorded in: William Ernest Henley, ed., The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous Writings (W. Heinemann, 1903), p. 162
“This story will not go down.”
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Recorded in: Tumble-down Dick; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.”
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“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.”
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“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”
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“All Nature wears one universal grin.”
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“Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. Today it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.”
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“When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more.”
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“Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.”
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“To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.”
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“Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.”
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“We must eat to live and live to eat.”
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“Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich — that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.”
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“Penny saved is a penny got.”
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“A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.”
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“The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation”
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“It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.”
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“To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.”
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“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
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“I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.”
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“They are the affectation of affectation.”
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“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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“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
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“Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates”
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“The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.”
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“...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.”
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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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“. . . for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.”
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“Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.”
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“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.”
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“Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?”
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“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”
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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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“Distinction without a difference.”
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“At last the Ocean, that hospitable friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him.”
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“Indeed, it may be doubted whether Ulysses, who by the way seems to have had the best stomach of all the heroes in that eating poem of the Odyssey, ever made a better meal.”
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“The dignity of history.”
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Also quoted by: Viscount Bolingbroke
“His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.”
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“Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.”
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“Republic of letters.”
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“When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.”
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