“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.” — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. — 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
“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
“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
“As this is one of those deep observations which very few readers can be supposed capable of making themselves, I have thought… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“We would bestow some pains here in minutely describing all the mad pranks which Jones played on this occasion could we be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Here, reader, thou must pardon us if we stop a while to lament the capriciousness of Nature in forming this charming part… — 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 Image
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 Image
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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