Henry Fielding: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Penny saved is a penny got.”

“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.”

“Distinction without a difference.”

“Much may be said on both sides.”

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

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

“To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.”

“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…”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Enough is equal to a feast.”

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

“Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.”

“These are called the pious frauds of friendship.”