Henry Fielding, (1707 1754) British novelist. Quotes

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.

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.

There’s one fool at least in every married couple.

In reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Riches without charity are worth nothing. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

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

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

When I'm not thanked at all I'm thanked enough. .

. . . it hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

. . . when the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.