Henry Fielding Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Desire, May

• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

  Henry Fielding

  Fashion, Science, Inspire

• And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

  Henry Fielding

  Lying, Believe, Kissing

  Henry Fielding (1992). “Tom Jones”, p.204, Wordsworth Editions

• It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

  Henry Fielding

  Nature, Desire, Want

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.173

• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

  Henry Fielding

  Sex, White, Desire

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

• The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

  Henry Fielding

  Failure, Quality, Desire

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