However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“as [ale] is the liquor of modern historians,..., it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons .… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed and puzzled… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you… — Henry Fielding Copy Share
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