Henry Fielding Quotes

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I am against war, and because I am against war I went to war to fight against war.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

They will love me for that which destroys me.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.