Logo
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. – Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
category

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

Category:
Miscellaneous

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Category:
Miscellaneous

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

Category:
Miscellaneous

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicoles and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating whats been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. – Boris Kodjoe

Category:
Future

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Office

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning… and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. – Bergen Evans

Category:
Quotations

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. – Julia Margaret Cameron

Category:
Beauty