Henry Fielding Quotes About Design
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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