Quotes from book

Joseph Andrews

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

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”

“The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation”

“I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.”

“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.”

“I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”

“To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.”

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