Henry Fielding

(377 votes)   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.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(230 votes)   It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(107 votes)   I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(106 votes)   He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(99 votes)   Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(99 votes)   Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(89 votes)   Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(74 votes)   There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(70 votes)   Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(60 votes)   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.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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

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(46 votes)   Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

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(37 votes)   If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

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(36 votes)   LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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