Memorable Quotes and quotations from Henry FieldingHenry Fielding English dramatist & novelist (1707 - 1754)Henry Fielding - - A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding - - Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. Henry Fielding - - Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding - "Jonathan Wild" - 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 - - Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding - - 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 - - Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Henry Fielding - - A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. Henry Fielding - - A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. Henry Fielding - - He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Henry Fielding - - If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding - - LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. |
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