110+ Henry Fielding Quotes On Education, Religion And Field

Henry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his comic and satirical works. He is best known for his novel Tom Jones, which is considered one of the earliest English novels. Fielding also wrote plays and essays, and was a magistrate in London in the mid-18th century. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Henry Fielding on leadership, education, religion.

Top 10 Henry Fielding Quotes

1. Handsome is that handsome does.
2. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
3. There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
4. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
5. The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
6. There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
7. He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
8. Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
9. A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
10. Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding Image Quotes

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Short Quotes

• A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
• All nature wears one universal grin.
• It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
• We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
• The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
• Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
• Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
• It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Henry Fielding Quotes About Education

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. — Henry Fielding

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Quotes About Love

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

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. — Henry Fielding

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

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions. — Henry Fielding

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. — Henry Fielding

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders. — Henry Fielding

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray. — Henry Fielding

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Quotes About Adversity

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. — Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. — Henry Fielding

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

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Quotes About World

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible. — 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

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

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. — Henry Fielding

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. — Henry Fielding

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. — Henry Fielding

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. — Henry Fielding

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world. — Henry Fielding

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Quotes About Mind

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure. — Henry Fielding

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. — Henry Fielding

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms. — Henry Fielding

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. — Henry Fielding

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly. — Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work. — Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Quotes About Vice

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. — Henry Fielding

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. — Henry Fielding

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women. — Henry Fielding

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects. — Henry Fielding

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous. — Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding Famous Quotes And Sayings

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. — Henry Fielding

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men. — Henry Fielding

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef. — Henry Fielding

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them. — Henry Fielding

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

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. — Henry Fielding

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem. — Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. — Henry Fielding

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. — Henry Fielding

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. — Henry Fielding

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country. — Henry Fielding

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures. — Henry Fielding

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn. — Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you. — 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

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties. — Henry Fielding

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them. — Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. — Henry Fielding

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure. — Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. — Henry Fielding

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation. — Henry Fielding

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

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

One fool at least in every married couple. — Henry Fielding

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies. — Henry Fielding

Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us. — Henry Fielding

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. — Henry Fielding

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest. — Henry Fielding

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. — Henry Fielding

Clergy are men as well as other folks. — Henry Fielding

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

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. — Henry Fielding

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place. — Henry Fielding

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue. — Henry Fielding

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit. — Henry Fielding

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection. — Henry Fielding

We must eat to live, and not live to eat. — Henry Fielding

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. — Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. — Henry Fielding

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. — Henry Fielding

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause. — Henry Fielding

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. — Henry Fielding

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. — Henry Fielding

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. — Henry Fielding

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. — Henry Fielding

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob. — Henry Fielding

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

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse. — Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. — Henry Fielding

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. — Henry Fielding

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person. — Henry Fielding

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself. — Henry Fielding

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. — Henry Fielding

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. — Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more. — Henry Fielding

Where the law ends tyranny begins. — Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. — Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. — Henry Fielding

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. — Henry Fielding

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards. — Henry Fielding

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. — Henry Fielding

My angel, cries Booth, it delights me to hear you talk thus, and for a reason you little guess; for I am assured that one who can so heroically endure adversity, will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former, is not likely to be transported with the latter. — Henry Fielding

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions. — Henry Fielding

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it. — Henry Fielding

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell. — Henry Fielding

Life Lessons by Henry Fielding

1. Henry Fielding taught us that it is important to be humble and generous with our time and resources, as he was known for his philanthropy and charitable works.
2. He also taught us to be resilient and to never give up in the face of adversity, as he overcame a difficult childhood and financial hardship to become one of the most successful novelists of his time.
3. Lastly, Fielding taught us to be creative and to use our imagination, as he was a master of satire and wrote some of the most influential novels of the 18th century.