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“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.”

Book III, Ch. 10
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

“Penny saved is a penny got.”

Act III, sc. xii
The Miser (1733)

“To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.”

Henry Fielding book Amelia

Book I, Ch. 1
Amelia (1751)

“Distinction without a difference.”

Book VI, Ch. 13
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

“Much may be said on both sides.”

Spectator, No. 122.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.”

Book XIII, Ch. 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

“Life may as properly be called an art as any other.”

Henry Fielding book Amelia

Book I, Ch. 1
Amelia (1751)

“To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.”

Act I, sc. iii
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

“Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic…”

Book I, Chapter 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

“The dusky night rides down the sky,
And ushers in the morn;
The hounds all join in glorious cry,
The huntsman winds his horn,
And a-hunting we will go.”

A-Hunting We Will Go (1734), st. 1

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

Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews

Book I, Ch. 1
Joseph Andrews (1742)

“It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.”

Henry Fielding book Amelia

Book III, Ch. 4
Amelia (1751)

“Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates”

Book I, Chapter 1
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

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

Source: Tom Thumb the Great (1730), Act I, sc. iii

“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 Love in Several Masques

Act II, sc. xi
Love in Several Masques (1728)

“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.”

Act I, sc. ii
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

“Enough is equal to a feast.”

The Covent Garden Tragedy (1732), Act V, scene 1

“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.”

Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques

Act III, sc. vii
Love in Several Masques (1728)

“Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.”

Book II, Ch. 9
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

“These are called the pious frauds of friendship.”

Henry Fielding book Amelia

Book VI, Ch. 6
Amelia (1751)