Frases de Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding , foi um romancista inglês conhecido por seu humor vulgar e sua intrepidez satírica, e por criar o romance Tom Jones.

Além de suas conquistas literárias, ele teve um importante papel na história da aplicação da lei, tendo fundado o que alguns denominam o primeiro corpo policial da cidade de Londres, os Bow Street Runners, usando sua autoridade como magistrado. Sua irmã mais nova, Sarah, também se tornou uma escritora de sucesso. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Abril 1707 – 8. Outubro 1754   •   Outros nomes هنری فیلدینق
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Henry Fielding Frases famosas

Henry Fielding frases e citações

“A sede ensina a beber a todos os animais, mas a embriaguez só pertence ao homem.”

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
"The Covent - Garden Tragedy, Act I, Scene VII" in The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, with Memoir of the Author‎ - Página 946 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=cXwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA946, de Henry Fielding, George Cruikshank, Thomas Roscoe - Publicado por H.G. Bohn, 1849 - 1116 páginas
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Henry Fielding: Frases em inglês

“They are the affectation of affectation.”

Henry Fielding livro Joseph Andrews

Book III, Ch. 3
Joseph Andrews (1742)

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

Henry Fielding livro Joseph Andrews

Author's Preface
Joseph Andrews (1742)

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

Henry Fielding Love in Several Masques

Act IV, sc. xi
Love in Several Masques (1728)

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

Henry Fielding livro The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Fonte: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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

Don Quixote in England (1731), Act I, scene vi http://books.google.com/books?id=8_VbAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Money+is+the+fruit+of+evil+as+often+as+the+root+of+it%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage

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

Henry Fielding livro Joseph Andrews

Book III, Ch. 1
Joseph Andrews (1742)

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

Henry Fielding livro The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Fonte: Tom Jones

“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.”

Fielding, Henry; ed. by William Ernest Henley. 1903. The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings. W. Heinemann. p. 162

“Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”

Henry Fielding livro Amelia

Book III, ch. 11
Amelia (1751)

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

Act III, sc. iii
The Miser (1733)

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

Henry Fielding livro Joseph Andrews

Book II, Ch. 8
Joseph Andrews (1742)

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

The Grub Street Opera (1731), Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv

“One fool at least in every married couple.”

Henry Fielding livro Amelia

Book IX, ch. 4
Amelia (1751)

“This story will not go down.”

Tumble-down Dick; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All Nature wears one universal grin.”

Act I, sc. i
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)