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“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”

Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews

Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)

“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 book Joseph Andrews

Author's Preface
Joseph Andrews (1742)

Life , Nature

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

Henry Fielding book Amelia

Book I, Ch. 1
Amelia (1751)

Life , Art

“Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
Today it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.”

Henry Fielding

Act I, sc. ii
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

Pleasure , Business

“But perhaps there may be a political reason for it: in finding one of a truly benevolent disposition, men may very reasonably suppose they have found a treasure, and be desirous of keeping it, like all other good things, to themselves. Hence they may imagine, that to trumpet forth the praises of such a person, would, in the vulgar phrase, be crying Roast-meat, and calling in partakers of what they intend to appl solely to their own use. If this reason does not satisfy the reader, I know no other means of accounting for the little respect which I have commonly seen paid to a character which really does great honour to human nature, and is productive of the highest good to society.”

Henry Fielding
Men , Imagination , Nature , Personality