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
wise men good-man
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
soldier lasts firsts
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
witty children doing-nothing
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
nature garden environmental
All nature wears one universal grin.
men alma-mater individual
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
happiness thousand persons
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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.