Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGMake money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGWine and youth are fire upon fire.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
HENRY FIELDINGNothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDINGWhat is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
HENRY FIELDINGA good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
HENRY FIELDINGScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGThe slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDINGWine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING