The History of Tom Jones Quotes

“Chapter xiv. — A most dreadful chapter indeed; and which few readers ought to venture upon in an evening, especially when alone.

Jones swallowed a large mess of chicken, or rather cock,”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling. in Three Volumes.

“Surely,' says Sophia, 'I am born deficient, and have not the Senses with which other People are blessed: There must be certainly some Sense which can relish the Delights of Sound and Show, which I have not: For surely Mankind would not labour so much, nor sacrifice so much for the obtaining, nor would they be so elate and proud with possessing, what appeared to them, as it doth to me, the most insignificant of Trifles.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones

“Good heaven, how is it possible for a man to maintain a constant lie in his appearance abroad and in company and content himself with showing disagreeable truth only at home?”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling