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Henry Fielding quotes

English Novelist, Playwright, Writer April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

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Henry Fielding quote: "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding
The citadel of Jones was now taken by surprise. All those considerations of honour and prudence which our heroe had lately with so much military wisdom placed as guards over the avenues of his heart, ran away from their posts, and the god of love marched in, in triumph. Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding quote: "There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to..."
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. Henry Fielding
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. Henry Fielding
To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that you have brought her into this Situation, is, perhaps, a Curse of which no Imagination can represent the Horrors to those who have not felt it. Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding quote: "The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the..."
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding quote: "Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with..."
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Henry Fielding
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn. Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding quote: "Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the..."
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding quote: "Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. 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! Henry Fielding
Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal. Henry Fielding
We would bestow some pains here in minutely describing all the mad pranks which Jones played on this occasion could we be well assured that the reader would take the same pains in perusing them, but as we are apprehensive that after all the labour which we should employ in painting this scene the said reader would be very apt to skip it entirely over, we have saved ourself that trouble. To say the truth, we have from this reason alone often done great violence to the luxuriance of our genius,... Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding quote: "No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never..."
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress. Henry Fielding
Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out. Henry Fielding

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