Henry Fielding Quotes

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Imperfections create character.

The first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.