When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not...
HENRY FIELDING One fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDING When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- ...
HENRY FIELDING Republic of letters.
HENRY FIELDING The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
HENRY FIELDING Handsome is that handsome does.
HENRY FIELDING But me no buts.
HENRY FIELDING Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather...
HENRY FIELDING A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his m...
HENRY FIELDING None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lord...
HENRY FIELDING Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rathe...
HENRY FIELDING It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
HENRY FIELDING I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
HENRY FIELDING If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than th...
HENRY FIELDING Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDING Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING All nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDING Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had obser...
HENRY FIELDING Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
HENRY FIELDING Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDING Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be si...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for th...
HENRY FIELDING My angel, cries Booth, it delights me to hear you talk thus, and for a reason you little guess; for ...
HENRY FIELDING Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.
HENRY FIELDING When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he ...
HENRY FIELDING Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDING I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public schoo...
HENRY FIELDING It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
HENRY FIELDING Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be...
HENRY FIELDING Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDING Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDING Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
HENRY FIELDING Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
HENRY FIELDING He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not...
HENRY FIELDING Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is...
HENRY FIELDING Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cucko...
HENRY FIELDING A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as...
HENRY FIELDING Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
HENRY FIELDING The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
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 We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road t...
HENRY FIELDING His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way ...
HENRY FIELDING There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
HENRY FIELDING So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With...
HENRY FIELDING There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergym...
HENRY FIELDING Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDING Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
HENRY FIELDING Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
HENRY FIELDING The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts
HENRY FIELDING Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
HENRY FIELDING Amiable weakness.
HENRY FIELDING Illustrious predecessors.
HENRY FIELDING Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
HENRY FIELDING The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
HENRY FIELDING Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
HENRY FIELDING A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDING When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not...
HENRY FIELDING There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those onl...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the m...
HENRY FIELDING The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
HENRY FIELDING Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is...
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for t...
HENRY FIELDING Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
HENRY FIELDING LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically s...
HENRY FIELDING He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had no...
HENRY FIELDING This story will never go down.
HENRY FIELDING When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
HENRY FIELDING The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
HENRY FIELDING Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be...
HENRY FIELDING A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. -Henry Fielding.
HENRY FIELDING Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
HENRY FIELDING But pray, Mr Wild, why bitch?
HENRY FIELDING Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.
HENRY FIELDING Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us
HENRY FIELDING Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
HENRY FIELDING Read in order to live.
HENRY FIELDING Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather...
HENRY FIELDING We must eat to live and live to eat
HENRY FIELDING Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his ...
HENRY FIELDING When I'm not thanked at all I'm thanked enough
HENRY FIELDING To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.
HENRY FIELDING An amiable weakness.
HENRY FIELDING I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
HENRY FIELDING His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way ...
HENRY FIELDING Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation
HENRY FIELDING There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we ...
HENRY FIELDING The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim
HENRY FIELDING Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than th...
HENRY FIELDING There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those onl...
HENRY FIELDING One of my illustrious predecessors.
HENRY FIELDING Composed that monstrous animal a husband and wife.
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the m...
HENRY FIELDING I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' t...
HENRY FIELDING I am as sober as a judge.
HENRY FIELDING He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the m...
HENRY FIELDING The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater p...
HENRY FIELDING For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I sho...
HENRY FIELDING No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil,...
HENRY FIELDING Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall...
HENRY FIELDING ...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...
HENRY FIELDING ...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...
HENRY FIELDING The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDING [...] for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked...
HENRY FIELDING Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
FIELDING I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridge...
HELEN FIELDING It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hai...
HELEN FIELDING If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another fa...
HELEN FIELDING I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.
JOY FIELDING I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ...
HELEN FIELDING I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I com...
HELEN FIELDING When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world yo...
HELEN FIELDING Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than yo...
SARAH FIELDING The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
SARAH FIELDING Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the...
SARAH FIELDING Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need ...
HELEN FIELDING It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, anot...
HELEN FIELDING I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the...
SARAH FIELDING I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the f...
NOEL FIELDING It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at ...
HELEN FIELDING I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea...
HELEN FIELDING I started doing stand-up on my own and I met Julian within a year, and straight away we started to g...
NOEL FIELDING Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both bein...
HELEN FIELDING It is horrid to smirk.
HELEN FIELDING I wasn't involved in the casting at that state, but I think it was a good idea. I think she's one of...
HELEN FIELDING I've only done some work on (the screenplay), and I find it very difficult, actually. Because you ca...
HELEN FIELDING I recently bought a house in L.A., and I was so pleased with myself. I thought I had arrived and I w...
HELEN FIELDING I said 'no,' because I didn't want to expose myself in that way. But I said, 'But I will do this cha...
HELEN FIELDING I think it is a kind of subject matter that needed exploring ... the identity of the single woman ha...
HELEN FIELDING Am I seeing the characters of the original diary or the characters from the film?
HELEN FIELDING When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world yo...
HELEN FIELDING I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self a...
HELEN FIELDING I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game o...
HELEN FIELDING the nation's young men have
been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a re...
HELEN FIELDING As the sun began to rise, the man reached out to the woman, and they clasped hands. He cradled her, ...
HANNAH FIELDING Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and M...
HELEN FIELDING Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free t...
HELEN FIELDING I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you hav...
NOEL FIELDING Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do t...
HELEN FIELDING It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten t...
DAPHNE FIELDING It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of ...
HELEN FIELDING Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankl...
HELEN FIELDING If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic atta...
HELEN FIELDING Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
HELEN FIELDING Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or...
HELEN FIELDING We'd like to think that people just haven't gotten to it. ... It wasn't put out as a Chinese menu.
FRED FIELDING Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not invo...
HELEN FIELDING ..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive muc...
HELEN FIELDING Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
HELEN FIELDING One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
HELEN FIELDING Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pr...
HELEN FIELDING As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. ...
HELEN FIELDING I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eati...
HELEN FIELDING Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?

Oh God. Why can't married p...
HELEN FIELDING Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey befo...
HELEN FIELDING Emotional fuckwittage
HELEN FIELDING When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart...
HELEN FIELDING I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.
HELEN FIELDING Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.
HELEN FIELDING Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of y...
HELEN FIELDING Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's pantie...
HELEN FIELDING But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship ...
HELEN FIELDING Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done:...
HELEN FIELDING I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.
HELEN FIELDING I like you very much. Just as you are.
HELEN FIELDING That is such crap. How dare you be so fraudulently flirtatious, cowardly and dysfunctional? I am not...
HELEN FIELDING I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with g...
HELEN FIELDING I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik...
JOY FIELDING I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
JOY FIELDING I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.
JOY FIELDING There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don...
JOY FIELDING Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
JOY FIELDING Roxster, my photo is of an egg.
HELEN FIELDING Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
NOEL FIELDING 'It's not you, it's me.'

'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said whe...
KIM FIELDING Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons...
FRED F. FIELDING Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called m...
FRED F. FIELDING It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the ter...
FRED F. FIELDING Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as t...
O. FIELDING CLARKE Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria...
O. FIELDING CLARKE The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions ve...
FRED F. FIELDING Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guidi...
JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going ...
FRED F. FIELDING I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
HENRY DRUMMOND