Henry Fielding Quotes - Page 5

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• A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

  Henry Fielding

  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1806). “Miscellaneous: The fathers; or, The good-natured man, a comedy. The life of Jonathan Wild the Great. A journey from this world to the next, &c”, p.318

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• The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

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  Soldier, Lasts, Firsts

  Henry Fielding (1824). “The Works of Henry Fielding, with a Life of the Author: Plays”, p.282

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• 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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  Love, Food, Delight

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1841). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.683

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• Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

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  Hero, Mean, Ideas

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.478

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

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  Sex, White, Desire

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

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• Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

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  Doctors, Physicians, Disease

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.23

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• When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

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  Heart, Blood, Brave

  'The Grub Street Opera' (1731) act 3, sc. 3

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• O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

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  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1596, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

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  Two, Golden, Bows

  Henry Fielding (1824). “Works: With a Life of the Author”, p.82

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• It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

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  Mind, Example, Definitions

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• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

  Henry Fielding

  Conscience

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

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  Latin, Conquer, Poet

  Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley (1903). “The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the life of the late Mr.Jonathan Wild and A journey from this world to the next, &c”

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

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  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

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  Vanity, Generosity, Different

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The Adventures of Joseph Andrews”, p.52

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• ...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.

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  Wise, Hero, Food

  Henry Fielding (1844). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: With the Life of the Author : in Two Volumes”, p.443

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• The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.

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  Animal, May, Tables

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The history of Tom Jones”, p.45

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• When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

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  Jealousy, Passion, Female

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1250, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Love, Eye, Break Out

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.111

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• The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

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  Ridiculous, Source

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Joseph Andrews and Shamela”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Handsome is that handsome does.

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  Doe, Handsome, Appearance

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.196

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• 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.

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  Failure, Quality, Desire

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• The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

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  Coffee, House, Way

  Henry Fielding (1824). “Works: With a Life of the Author”, p.297

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• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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  Love, Marriage, Heart

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• Wicked companions invite us to hell.

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  Wicked, Hell, Companion

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

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  Love, Quality, May

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