Tom Jones Quotes by Henry Fielding

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply. ~ Tom Jones 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