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Quotes from Amelia — Henry Fielding

1707–1754 England

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9 quotes

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Amelia (1751)

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 (1751)

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

Amelia (1751)

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Amelia (1751)

One fool at least in every married couple.

Amelia (1751)

A good face, they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World?

Amelia (1751)

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Amelia (1751)

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Amelia (1751)

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

Amelia (1751)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Fielding (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.