8 Quotes By Henry Fielding


It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding on death

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding on food

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding on happiness

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding on money

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding on nature

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding on science

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding on wedding

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti
Henry Fielding on art