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Adversity
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My angel, cries Booth, it delights me to hear you talk thus, and for a reason you little guess; for I am assured that one who can so heroically endure adversity, will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former, is not likely to be transported with the latter.
-Henry Fielding, Amelia
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
-Henry Fielding
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
-Henry Fielding
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Appreciation
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
-Henry Fielding
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Charity
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
-Henry Fielding
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Children
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
-Henry Fielding
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Common Sense
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
-Henry Fielding
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Conscience
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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.
-Henry Fielding
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Criticism
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
-Henry Fielding
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Dance, Dancing
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
-Henry Fielding
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Death
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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
-Henry Fielding
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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
-Henry Fielding
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Desires
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
-Henry Fielding
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Drinking
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Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
-Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb the Great. Act I Sc. 2
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Education
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I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
-Henry Fielding
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
-Henry Fielding
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Envy / Jealousy
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
-Henry Fielding
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Face, Faces
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
-Henry Fielding
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Fashion
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
-Henry Fielding
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Fools, Foolishness
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
-Henry Fielding
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Gossip
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
-Henry Fielding
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Happiness
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
-Henry Fielding
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Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue...
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/tom-jones-914.html
-Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a foundling
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Honesty
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
-Henry Fielding
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Infatuation
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
-Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wild, Book III, ch. 7
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Books by and about Henry Fielding