259 Quotes by Henry Fielding

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

The dignity of history.

Penny saved is a penny got.

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

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.