Henry Fielding Quotes About Eyes

• Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Names, Guilt

  Henry Fielding (1752). “Amelia: By Henry Fielding, Esq; In four volumes. ...”, p.44

• Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, Eye, Compassion

• O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

  Henry Fielding

  Arte, Poderoso, Ojo

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1596, Delphi Classics

• There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Done, Reason

• Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Eye, Break Out

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.111

• A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Nine, Lasts

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