Henry Fielding citáty

„Ženy nájdu tisíc ospravedlnení pre hlúposť tých, ktorých ľúbia.“

„Láska je umocnené priateľstvo v tom zmysle, že zatiaľ čo priateľstvo vyhľadáva prospech, láska sa ho dobrovoľne zrieka.“

„Peniaze povedia v jednom okamihu viac, ako ten najvýrečnejší milenec vie povedať za roky.“

„Povýšte peniaze na svojho boha a budú vás moriť ako diabol.“

„Keď deti nerobia nič, robia neplechu.“

„Láska je božská len v predstavách. V skutočnosti je to diabolský vynález sebatrýznenia.“

„Láska má mnoho spoločného s rozprávkou, manželstva naproti tomu s realistickým príbehom.“

„Láska sa podobá všetkému na svete, ale jej sa nepodobá nič.“

„Viac ako lásku prajem všetkým milencom vzájomné chápanie svojich nedostatkov.“

„Ak vdova hlasito protestuje proti druhému manželstvu, určite si už vybrala nielen muža, ale možno aj deň svadby.“

„Aspoň jeden blázon v každej manželskej dvojici.“

„Často sa hovorí, že nie smrť je strašná, ale umieranie.“

„Dúfam, že mi priatelia odpustia, keď prehlásim, že nepoznám žiadneho z nich, ktorý by nemal chyby. A mrzelo by ma, keby som mal priateľov, ktorí by mojej chyby nevideli.“

„Chudobný človek má rovnako nesmrteľnú dušu ako lepší ľudia.“

„Každý lekár má svoju obľúbenú chorobu.“

„Keď vdovy hlasito protestujú proti druhému manželstvu, vždy by som sa stavil, že muž, ak nie aj deň svadby, už je bezpodmienečne vybratý.“

„Láskavosť je znakom muža veľkého, nezdvorilosť malého.“

„Nad obozretnosťou najlepších hláv často zvíťazí nežnosť najlepších sŕdc.“

„Najhorší ľudia majú obyčajne najčastejšie na jazyku slová darebák a ničomník.“

„Niektorí ľudia sprosto nadávajú iným ľuďom, pretože iní ľudia majú to, čomu by sa oni sami potešili.“

„Nikdy nedôveruj človeku, ktorý má dôvod k podozreniu, že vieš o tom, že ťa urazil.“

„Nikdy nesmieme ísť k lekárovi bez toho, aby sme vedeli, aká je jeho obľúbená diagnóza.“

„Peniaze sú ovocím zla, práve tak často ako jeho koreňom.“

„Úprimný a naozaj rozumný človek nikdy unáhlene neodsudzuje.“

„Urob si z peňazí boha, a budú ťa sužovať ako diabol.“

„Vierolomný priateľ, najnebezpečnejší nepriateľ.“

„Zákony sú ako hra v karty: Esá majú vždy dobrý kurz, no dolník je dobrý len mimo hry.“

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

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

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”

“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”

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

“Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.”

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

“No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.”

“For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.”

“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.”

“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.”

“A crime, which, though perhaps not considered by law as the highest, is in truth and in fact, the blackest sin, which can contaminate the hands, or pollute the soul of man.”

“A good face, they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World?”

“Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”

“We must eat to live and live to eat.”

“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.”

“He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? "Are not you," said Cleostratus, "ashamed to admonish a drunken man?" — To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so.”

“Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!”

“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”

“One fool at least in every married couple.”

“This story will not go down.”

“Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?”

“Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.”

“The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.”

“When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.”

“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”

“All Nature wears one universal grin.”

“…the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.”