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Quotes of Henry Fielding British Financial Journalist
Henry Fielding Photo and Biography
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. (money)
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. (women)
Read in order to live. (reading)
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. (prudence)
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. (love)
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. (conscience)
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. (dancing)
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. (relations)
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!. (nature)
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. (fashion)
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. (men and women)
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (virtue)
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-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. (money)
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. (misfortune)
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. (envy)
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible. (death and dying)
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. (death and dying)
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. (common sense)
Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us. (conscience)
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. (education)
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. (books - reading)
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. (critics and criticis)
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. (books - reading)
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. (charity)
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. (children)
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