| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| |
| |
| NUMBER: | 22074 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Fielding (17071754), British novelist, dramatist. Tom Jones, bk. 5, ch. 1 (1749). |
| |
| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
|
|