Quotes by Fielding, Henry

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of >>

In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and >>

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob >>

Quotations about School

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, >>

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. >>

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch >>

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 calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Fielding, Henry