259 Quotes by Henry Fielding

Beauty may be the object of liking – great qualities of admiration – good ones of esteem – but love only is the object of love.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man – the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

How often, when I have told you that all men are false and perjury alike, and grow tired of us as soon as ever they have had their wicked wills of us, how often have you sworn you would never forsake me?

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor – that it conquers all things – is much more true when applied to impudence.

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.