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.


Book V, ch. 1 - The History of Tom Jones (1749)

Henry Fielding Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.