Logo
Quote by Henry Fielding
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. - Hen

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

Other quotes by Henry Fielding

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. – Henry Fielding

Category:
Goodbye
Author
Henry Fielding
Read Quote

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

Category:
Food
Author
Henry Fielding
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Punishment
category

If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. – African Proverb

Category:
Punishment

No one provokes me with impunity. – Mary Queen Of Scots

Category:
Punishment

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Punishment

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Punishment

Random Quotes

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Friendship

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You cant cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs. – Jeanine Basinger

Category:
teacher

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

Category:
Obscurity

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Knowledge