Henry Fielding Quotes about Desire

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Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you. This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

Henry Fielding

Men, Desire, May

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Henry Fielding

Nature, Desire, Want

Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.173

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Henry Fielding

Sex, White, Desire

'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Henry Fielding

Failure, Quality, Desire

Henry Fielding Quotes about Desire

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