Quote

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

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
Objects
Ones
Beauty
Quality
Liking
May
Admiration
Great
Qualities
Good
Esteem
Love
Object

More quotes by 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
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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
Image
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Henry Fielding
Image
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
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
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
Henry Fielding
Image
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
Image
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Henry Fielding
Image
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you. This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
Henry Fielding
Image
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
Henry Fielding
Image
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
Henry Fielding
Image
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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
All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
Image
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Henry Fielding
Image
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
Henry Fielding
Image
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Henry Fielding
Image
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
Henry Fielding
Image
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
Henry Fielding