Top 41 Quotes by Henry Fielding

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

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

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

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.

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

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

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