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Law
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
-Henry Fielding
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Love
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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.
-Henry Fielding
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Marriage
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
-Henry Fielding
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One fool at least in every married couple.
-Henry Fielding
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Money
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
-Henry Fielding
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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.
-Henry Fielding
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
-Henry Fielding
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
-Henry Fielding
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Nature
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All nature wears one universal grin.
-Henry Fielding
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Patience
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
-Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Prudence
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
-Henry Fielding
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Punishment
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
-Henry Fielding
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Purpose
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His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
-Henry Fielding
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Reading
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
-Henry Fielding
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
-Henry Fielding
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Reason
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
-Henry Fielding
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Religion
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
-Henry Fielding
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Virtue
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
-Henry Fielding
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Worth
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
-Henry Fielding
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Books by and about Henry Fielding