Henry Fielding Quotes

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

To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes. - Henry Fielding

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. - Henry Fielding

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. - Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. - Henry Fielding

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. - Henry Fielding

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. - Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. - Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. - Henry Fielding

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