8 Henry Fielding Quotes on Society

Henry Fielding quotes on society

4. He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

14. Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich-that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

21. I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

26. 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.

28. ...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.

32. In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

35. His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

43. When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.