Henry Fielding Quotes on Morality
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
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He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? 'Are not you,' said Cleostratus, 'ashamed to admonish a drunken man?'--To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.