Quote

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

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
Wells
Traveller
Well
Ingenious
Good
Imitate
Always
Proportion
Indeed
Writers
Stay
Place
Proportions

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
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
Henry Fielding
Image
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
Image
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
Henry Fielding
Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
Henry Fielding
Image
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
Henry Fielding
Image
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
Henry Fielding
Image
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
Image
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity sometimes of generosity nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
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
Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
Henry Fielding
Image
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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 is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Henry Fielding