Quote

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

Henry Fielding

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
Journalist
Judge
Jurist
Justice Of The Peace
Magistrate
Novelist
Playwright
Poet Lawyer
Short Story
Writer
Sharpham
Somerset
Henri Fielding
Scriblerus Secundus
Conny Keyber
Alexander Drawcansir
John Trottplaid
Hercules Vinegar
Henri Filding
Lemuel Gulliver
Petrus Gualterus
Enrique Fielding
Genri Filʹding
Every
Suspects
Privy
Like
Base
Transgressions
Guilt
Beholds
Tongue
Mentions
Contrary
Transgression
Name
Proclaiming
Names
Thief
Eye
Thieves

More quotes by Henry Fielding

Image
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Henry Fielding
Image
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
Henry Fielding
Image
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
Henry Fielding
Image
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
Image
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Henry Fielding
Image
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
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
Image
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding
Image
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Henry Fielding
Image
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
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
Image
All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
Image
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
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
Image
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Henry Fielding