Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
Henry Fieldingwas an English novelist and dramatist best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to foundwhat some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1707
educational enough
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
money devil plague
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
lying coquette judgment
The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
writing sides ridiculous
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.
fashion men law
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.
letters recommendations countenance
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
beauty female female-friendship
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
love gossip tea
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
design care action
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
country war pay
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
law forgotten neglect
A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.
country fighting pieces
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
moving might creation
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
wit good-humor
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.