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Letter "H" » Henry Fielding Quotes
«You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.»
«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.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
compliance, prevented, ravish, ravished, ravishing
«For clergy are men as well as other folks.»
«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!»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
dishonest, false face, Letter of, recommendation, recommendations
«Oh! The roast beef of England, / And old England's roast beef.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
beef, beefing, beeves, roast, roasting, roast beef
«There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.»
«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.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
namely, objection, religious doctrine, wholesome, Writings
«Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.»
«There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.»
«But pray, Mr Wild, why bitch?»
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