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Henry Fielding
Geburtstag:22. April 1707
Todesdatum:8. Oktober 1754
Andere Namen:هنری فیلدینق
Zitate Henry Fielding
„It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.“
— Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
„Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any further together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic whatever; and here I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.“
— Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
„Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal.“
— Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
„And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.“
— Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
„There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.“
— Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
