Top 100 Fielding Quotes
#1. You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me.
Joy Fielding
#2. The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
Henry Fielding
#3. What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Henry Fielding
#4. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding
#6. But the thing about having kids is: you can't go to pieces; you just have to keep going.
Helen Fielding
#7. When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.
Henry Fielding
#8. But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.
Sarah Fielding
#9. The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And
Henry Fielding
#10. I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
Sarah Fielding
#11. Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.
Sarah Fielding
#12. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
Helen Fielding
#13. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#14. How often, when I have told you that all men are false and perjury alike, and grow tired of us as soon as ever they have had their wicked wills of us, how often have you sworn you would never forsake me?
Henry Fielding
#15. When he's hot, he's hot; when he's not, he's not. But at least there is always food
Helen Fielding
#16. A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.
Henry Fielding
#17. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry Fielding
#19. The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#20. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Henry Fielding
#21. It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.
Helen Fielding
#22. A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.
Henry Fielding
#23. Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.
Henry Fielding
#25. My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
Joy Fielding
#26. Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.
Noel Fielding
#27. Things are different in the fantasy world
Towels are different in the fantasy world
Shows are different in the fantasy world
Dancing's different in the fantasy world
Unicorns No, they're the same
Everything's different in the fantasy world
Noel Fielding
#28. The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
Helen Fielding
#29. Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
Henry Fielding
#30. Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.
Helen Fielding
#31. For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
Henry Fielding
#32. The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
Fred F. Fielding
#33. I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
#34. The nation's young men have
been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole
generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and
don't need to wash anyone else's socks.
Helen Fielding
#35. It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.
Helen Fielding
#36. I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#37. 'It's not you, it's me.'
'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said when they dumped me. Is it in the Y-Chromosome User's Manual or something?'
He grinned. 'On page five. But, you know, don't tell anyone I told you.'
Kim Fielding
#38. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
#39. I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.
Marcus Giles
#40. Now doctors access patient messages via a mobile or Web application, and the message automatically becomes part of a conversation. Under the new system, the whole care team is aware of what is happening, and the doctor has the patient's history available when fielding questions.
Anonymous
#41. Why are bodies so difficult to manage? Why? 'Oh, oh, look at me, I'm a body, I'm going to splurge fat unless you, like, STARVE yourself and go to undignified TORTURE CENTRES and don't eat anything nice or get drunk.' Hate diet.
Helen Fielding
#42. The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
Ian Chappell
#43. He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Henry Fielding
#44. Should Never,Ever have got involved with Men again. Had completely forgotten the nightmare of 'Why hasn't he called
Helen Fielding
#45. Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.
Sarah Fielding
#46. A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
Henry Fielding
#47. They call me the confuser. Is he a man ... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.
Noel Fielding
#48. Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding
#49. Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you
Henry Fielding
#50. Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
Henry Fielding
#51. If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
#52. A French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn ours, so that he really spoke no language at all.
Henry Fielding
#53. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
#54. 'Didn't realize Matty was so scary,' Chris said.
'She's maybe five two and can't make it up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. But if I really pissed her off, she might poison my coffee.'
'Sounds like someone I'd like to meet.'
Kim Fielding
#55. It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
Helen Fielding
#56. Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
Helen Fielding
#57. But Mama told me it's not the color of a person's uniform that makes him a good man or a bad one. It's what's in here.
Kim Fielding
#58. Being afraid, being uncertain you'll succeed, but going ahead anyway - that's what makes a hero, Berhanu.
Kim Fielding
#59. You don't hope. You don't want. That only leads to destruction.
Kim Fielding
#60. Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Henry Fielding
#61. Let it be uppermost in your minds, now and at all times, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God who came into the world to lay down his life that we might live. That is the truth, and is fundamental. Upon that our faith is built.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#62. I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul-one of his children-than it is possible for an earthly father to be in one of his children. His love for us is greater than can be the love of an earthly parent for his offspring.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#63. Bet I will become known as brilliant cook and hostess
Helen Fielding
#64. 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.
Henry Fielding
#65. Bad enough when a man wanted to touch but could only look. Worse yet when he'd touched and not even noticed.
Helen Fielding
#66. Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Henry Fielding
#67. We have heard that we are all missionaries. Every member ... is or ought to be a missionary; ... as members of the Church, having pledged ourselves to the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ we become missionaries. That is part of the responsibility of every member of the Church
Joseph Fielding Smith
#68. A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Henry Fielding
#69. Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
Henry Fielding
#70. When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.
Noel Fielding
#71. Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Henry Fielding
#72. That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage. Goodbye.
Helen Fielding
#73. There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.
Noel Fielding
#74. Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
Henry Fielding
#75. But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
Fred F. Fielding
#76. She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.
Helen Fielding
#77. When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.
Noel Fielding
#78. Girls are so much nicer than men (apart from Tom-but homosexual).
Helen Fielding
#79. mascara-ing her eyelashes with her mouth wide open (necessity of open mouth during mascara application great unexplained mystery of nature). "Don't
Helen Fielding
#80. It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
Henry Fielding
#81. I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.
Helen Fielding
#82. The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Sarah Fielding
#83. In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
Henry Fielding
#84. And hell, if Shane kept on looking at Jimmy's goddamn dots, he was going to discover that all those pretty colors were an illusion. That Jimmy was made up of nothing but lies and emptiness. "I
Kim Fielding
#85. [F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
Sarah Fielding
#86. I'm not on drugs, Ben. I'm having an existential crisis.
Kim Fielding
#87. I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!
Helen Fielding
#88. The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.
Joy Fielding
#89. My tongue surged in and out of his mouth. It fit so perfectly it was as if Fielding had been designed for me to kiss him just like this.
Eli Easton
#90. I visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. It's the most fun I've had since i was seven. And I thought: it's not about drink, or drugs, or fancy clubs. It's about running around in your socks, changing direction in a front room in Leicester.
Noel Fielding
#91. Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.
Noel Fielding
#92. As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.
Temple Fielding
#93. I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
Joy Fielding
#94. Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
Henry Fielding
#95. The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
#96. There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.
Helen Fielding
#97. One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.
Helen Fielding
#99. My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#100. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
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