Top 15 Henry Fielding Quotes

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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?

One fool at least in every married couple.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Republic of letters.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

The dignity of history.