Henry Fielding Quotes

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

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  Tags in Gossip, Scandal

• It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

  Henry Fielding

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• Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

  Henry Fielding

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• 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

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• I am as sober as a Judge.

  Henry Fielding

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• Oh! The roast beef of England, And old England’s roast beef!

  Henry Fielding

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• Map me no maps, sir, my head is a map, a map of the whole world.

  Henry Fielding

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• 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

  Topics in English Proverbs

• It is not death, but dying which is terrible.

  Henry Fielding

  Topics in Death

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Word, Food

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

  Henry Fielding

• Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

  Henry Fielding

• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

  Henry Fielding

• Where the law ends tyranny begins.

  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.

  Henry Fielding

• When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.

  Henry Fielding

• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

  Henry Fielding

• What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

  Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (50)

Birth:	22nd April, 1707
Death:	8th October, 1754
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Henry Fielding was born in Sharpham, Somerset, England. He was an English novelist and playwright best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. He educated at Eton College. In 1728, he travelled to Leiden to study classics and law at the university. He wrote other novels include: Shamela, Joseph Andrews, and Amelia. He wrote several plays include: Love in Several Masques, Rape upon Rape, The Grub Street Opera, The Modern Husband, and The Lottery.

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