Henry Fielding Love Quotations

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

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

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

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.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

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