HFHenry Fielding

87 collected words

Henry Fielding

Life dates: 1707 AD — 1754 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1730 AD

All Nature wears one universal grin.

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02c. 1730 AD

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

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03c. 1730 AD

When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.

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04c. 1730 AD

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

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05c. 1730 AD

To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

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06c. 1730 AD

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.

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07c. 1730 AD

I am as sober as a judge.

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08c. 1730 AD

Enough is equal to a feast.

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09c. 1730 AD

We must eat to live and live to eat.

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10c. 1730 AD

Penny saved is a penny got.

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11c. 1730 AD

Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!

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12c. 1730 AD

This story will not go down.

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13c. 1730 AD

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

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14c. 1730 AD

Distinction without a difference.

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15c. 1730 AD

Amiable weakness.

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16c. 1730 AD

Republic of letters.

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17c. 1730 AD

Illustrious predecessors.

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18c. 1730 AD

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.

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19c. 1730 AD

Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms.

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20c. 1730 AD

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.

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21c. 1730 AD

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.

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22c. 1730 AD

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

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23c. 1730 AD

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

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24c. 1730 AD

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.

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