Henry Fielding

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Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Joseph Andrews (1742) 1.2 Tom Jones (1749) 1.3 Amelia (1751) 2 External links

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• All Nature wears one universal grin.
  • Tom Thumb the Great, Act I, sc. i (1730)

• Today it is our pleasure to be drunk;
  And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
  • Tom Thumb the Great, Act I, sc. ii (1730)

• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;
  I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
  • Tom Thumb the Great, Act I, sc. iii (1730)

• I am as sober as a judge.
  • Don Quixote in England, Act III, sc. xiv (1731)

• The dusky night rides down the sky,
  And ushers in the morn;
  The hounds all join in glorious cry,
  The huntsman winds his horn,
  And a-hunting we will go.
  • A-Hunting We Will Go, st. 1 (1734)

• Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.
  • Love in Several Masques (1743)

Joseph Andrews (1742)

• A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
  • Author's Preface

• The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation
  • Author's Preface

• It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts:
  • Book I, Ch. 1

• To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.
  • Book II, Ch. 8

• I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
  • Book II, Ch. 14

• I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
  • Book III, Ch. 1

• They are the affectation of affectation.
  • Book III, Ch. 3

• Publich schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
  • Book III, Ch. 5

• Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
  • Book IV, Ch. 6

Tom Jones (1749)

• Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates
  • Book I, Chapter 1

• The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
  • Book I, Chapter 1

• ...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
  • Book I, Chapter 1

• ...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
  • Book I, Chapter 6

• Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.
  • Bok II, Ch. 9

• Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
  • Book III, Ch. 10

• Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
  • Book IV, Ch. 4

• Distinction without a difference.
  • Book VI, Ch. 13

• His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
  • Book XI, Ch. 4

• Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
  • Book XIII, Ch. 2

Amelia (1751)

• To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
  • Book I, Ch. 1

• Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
  • Book I, Ch. 1

• It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.
  • Book III, Ch. 4

• These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
  • Book VI, Ch. 6

• When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
  • Book VI, Ch. 8

• There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
  • Book VI, Ch. 10

External links

• Works by Henry Fielding at Project Gutenberg

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