Henry Fielding Quotes

• We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

  Henry Fielding

• There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

  Henry Fielding

• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• One fool at least in every married couple.

  Henry Fielding

• Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

  Henry Fielding

• Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

  Henry Fielding

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

  Henry Fielding

• If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

  Henry Fielding

• I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

  Henry Fielding

• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

  Henry Fielding

• Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

  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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