Henry Fielding Quotes about Heart

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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

Henry Fielding

Heart, World, All Time

Henry Fielding (1857). “The history of Amelia, with illustr. by Phiz”, p.45

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

Love, Hate, Heart

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The works of Henry Fielding, esq: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.152

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

Heart, Broken, Despair

Henry Fielding (1882). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

Love, Happiness, Heart

Henry Fielding (1992). “Tom Jones”, p.708, Wordsworth Editions

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

Heart, Blood, Brave

'The Grub Street Opera' (1731) act 3, sc. 3

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Henry Fielding

Love, Marriage, Heart

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

Henry Fielding

Heart, Mean, Compassion

Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Henry Fielding

Heart, Men, Two

Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.2