259 Quotes by Henry Fielding

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.