259 Quotes by Henry Fielding

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Your religion... serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.

What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us.

To say the truth, every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.

He said “They were heartily welcome to his poor cottage”, and turning to Mr. Didapper, cried out, ‘Non mea renidet in domo lacunar.’ The beau answered, “He did not understand Welsh”; at which the parson stared and made no reply.

Thy modesty ’s a candle to thy merit.

When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood – Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.