Elizabeth Inchbald

“I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.”

— Elizabeth Inchbald

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

I have not laughed since I married.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

“For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.”

— Elizabeth Inchbald

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for…

— Elizabeth Inchbald

Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we…

— Elizabeth Inchbald

A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none…

— Elizabeth Inchbald