Frases de Henry Fielding

“Casi todos los médicos tienen una enfermedad favorita, a la que atribuyen todas las victorias obtenidas sobre la naturaleza humana.”

“El amor y el escándalo son los mejores endulzantes para el té.”

“El culpable tiene sus labios prestos a toda acusación.”

“A quién nada se ha dado, nada puede pedirse.”

“Aunque manida, es una observación certera que los ejemplos tienen más fuerza que los preceptos: y si esto es exacto en lo odioso y censurable, todavía lo es más si nos referimos a lo agradable y digno de alabanza.”

“El valor genera, en la mente mezquina envidia, y la emulación en las grandes almas.”

“La culpa se hace eco muy rápidamente de la acusación.”

“La escuela es la cuna de todos los vicios e inmoralidades.”

“La excelencia del alimento mental reside menos en el tema que en la habilidad del autor para bien aderezarlo.”

“La felicidad doméstica es el fin de todos nuestros anhelos, y la recompensa general de todos nuestros trabajos.”

“La naturaleza siempre muestra su sonrisa universal.”

“Las personas que pagan por lo que comen insisten en que se de gusto a su paladar, por caprichoso que sea.”

“Se suele decir que no es la muerte, sino morirse, lo que es terrible.”

“Si se comparara al número de los que se recuperan gracias al médico con el que los que mueren con su ayuda, los primeros excederían a los últimos.”

“Un penique ahorrado es un penique ganado.”

“Un periódico consta siempre del mismo número de palabras, haya noticias o no las haya.”

“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.”