Henry Fielding Quotes

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

We must eat to live and live to eat.

Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

"For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen."

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

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 calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Penny saved is a penny got.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich — that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
Today it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Much may be said on both sides.