CategoryComedy

There is no character more contemptible than a man that is a fortune-hunter.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

One fool at least in every married couple.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

A modest woman is to a lewd man what a gamester is to a cheat.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

All nature wears one universal grin.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

A man ought to be concerned for the opinions of others only so far as he is to profit by them.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an exact man.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews