Tag: Henry Fielding

Distinction without a difference.

Henry Fielding

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.

Henry Fielding

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Henry Fielding

Enough is equal to a feast.

Henry Fielding

“For it is very hard, my lord,” said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, “to hang a poor man for stealing a horse.” “You are not to be hanged sir,” answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, “for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen.”

Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Henry Fielding

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Henry Fielding