Henry Fielding citáty

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„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.“

“Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.”

“He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.”

“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”

“When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.”

“Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.”

“His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.”

“Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich — that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.”

“For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen.”

“Covent Garden Journal (11 January 1752)”
Illustrious predecessors.

“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.”

“Penny saved is a penny got.”

“To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.”

“Distinction without a difference.”

“Much may be said on both sides.”

“Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.”

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

“To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.”

“Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther 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…”

“The dusky night rides down the sky,
And ushers in the morn;
The hounds all join in glorious cry,
The huntsman winds his horn,
And a-hunting we will go.”

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

“It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.”

“Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates”

“When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.”

“A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.”

“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.”

“Enough is equal to a feast.”

“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.”

“Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.”

“These are called the pious frauds of friendship.”