Quotes

"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." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding "So you think it necessary, then," said the doctor, "that there should be one fool at least in every married couple." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding "It hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding "His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding To say the truth, every physician almost hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding "The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it." ~ Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare "'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god . . . " ~ Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare "Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is." ~ Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare