Henry Fielding Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.”

“All nature wears one universal grin.”

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

“There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.”

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

“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.”

“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.”

“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!”

“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”