# Henry Fielding

- Quotes: 9
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-fielding

## Books

- [A Tale of a Tub](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-fielding/a-tale-of-a-tub.md) — 8 quotes
- [Joseph Andrews](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-fielding/joseph-andrews.md) — 9 quotes

## Recently added quotes

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

> 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 describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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

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

> They are the affectation of affectation.

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

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

> 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.