Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

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.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.