Henry Fielding Quotes

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

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

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

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

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.

We must eat to live and live to eat.

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.

To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.

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

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.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.