Henry Fielding Quotes

I'm no superman.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

Unfortunately I am a human being and not a robot.

I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

I am only human, although I regret it.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

No hero is above fear.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.