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

- Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.

- Henry Fielding

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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.

- Henry Fielding

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

- Henry Fielding

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding