Quote

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

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
Riches
Avaricious
Leaving
Considerations
Already
Prospect
Two
Avarice
Heart
Acquired
Always
Thirst
Men
Perpetual
Consideration

More quotes by Henry Fielding

Image
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
Image
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding
Image
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
Henry Fielding
Image
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
Henry Fielding
Image
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Henry Fielding
Image
Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
Henry Fielding
Image
Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Henry Fielding
Image
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding
Image
Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry Fielding
Image
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
Image
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding
Image
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
Henry Fielding