Henry Fielding Quotes about Money

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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

Funny, Inspiring, Money

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

Money, Roots, Evil

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1814). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.79

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

Funny, Money, Years

Henry Fielding (1803). “The miser: a comedy”, p.64

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

Love, Witty, Money

Henry Fielding (2007). “Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734”, p.523, Oxford University Press on Demand