Henry Fielding

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

“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.”

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

“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!”

“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”

“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.”