Life may as properly be called an art as any other. Henry Fielding More Quotes by Henry Fielding More Quotes From Henry Fielding Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. Henry Fielding drinkanimalmen Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure. Henry Fielding pleasurebodymind What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. Henry Fielding whitedesiresex In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country. Henry Fielding piecesfightingcountry Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion. Henry Fielding fashionlawmen Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. Henry Fielding bowsgoldentwo In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. Henry Fielding female-friendshipfemalebeauty ...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. Henry Fielding herowisefood The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures. Henry Fielding evilmenbelieve There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world. Henry Fielding collegecharacterbook It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. Henry Fielding boatexcellentmen Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory. Henry Fielding lastingwritingmemories A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. Henry Fielding despairbrokenheart With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person. Henry Fielding enougheasycharacter Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due. Henry Fielding benchesjudgingmen A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply. Henry Fielding neglectlawforgotten 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. Henry Fielding jealousyfemalepassion A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it. Henry Fielding mensex It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all. Henry Fielding maximstrustpersons There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures. Henry Fielding creationmightmoving
