Henry Fielding Quotes (16 quotations)
1. A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding
2. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. - Henry Fielding
3. A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. - Henry Fielding
4. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. - Henry Fielding
5. Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. - Henry Fielding
6. Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. - Henry Fielding
7. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. - Henry Fielding
8. 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
9. If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. - Henry Fielding
10. Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. - Henry Fielding
11. 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
12. Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. - Henry Fielding
13. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. - Henry Fielding
14. 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
15. Read in order to live. - Henry Fielding
16. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. - Henry Fielding
2. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. - Henry Fielding
3. A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. - Henry Fielding
4. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. - Henry Fielding
5. Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. - Henry Fielding
6. Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. - Henry Fielding
7. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. - Henry Fielding
8. 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
9. If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. - Henry Fielding
10. Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. - Henry Fielding
11. 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
12. Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. - Henry Fielding
13. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. - Henry Fielding
14. 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
15. Read in order to live. - Henry Fielding
16. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. - Henry Fielding
