259 Quotes by Henry Fielding

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.