Quotes By Henry Fielding

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

All nature wears one universal grin.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.