Frases de Henry Fielding

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“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.”

“Amiable weakness.”

“The dignity of history.”

“Republic of letters.”

“For so extravagant was the affection of that fond parent, that, provided his child would but consent to be miserable with the husband he chose, he cared not at what price he purchased him.”

“And very obedient to me she was when a little child, before you took her in hand and spoiled her, by filling her head with a pack of court notions. Why—why—why—did I not overhear you telling her she must behave like a princess? You have made a Whig of the girl!”

“Ah, Tom, Tom, thou art a liquorish dog.”

“"But when the philosopher heard, a day or two afterwards, that the fortress of virtue had already been subdued, he began to give a large scope to his desires. His appetite was not of that squeamish kind which cannot feed on a dainty because another hath tasted it.”

“Things may be fitting to be done, which are not fitting to be boasted of; for by the perverse judgment of the world, that often becomes the subject of censure, which is, in truth, not only innocent but laudable. What can be more innocent than the indulgence of a natural appetite? Or what more laudable than the propagation of our species?”

“But perhaps there may be a political reason for it: in finding one of a truly benevolent disposition, men may very reasonably suppose they have found a treasure, and be desirous of keeping it, like all other good things, to themselves. Hence they may imagine, that to trumpet forth the praises of such a person, would, in the vulgar phrase, be crying Roast-meat, and calling in partakers of what they intend to appl solely to their own use. If this reason does not satisfy the reader, I know no other means of accounting for the little respect which I have commonly seen paid to a character which really does great honour to human nature, and is productive of the highest good to society.”