Henry Fielding Quotes

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

Handsome is that handsome does.

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

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.