when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it. — Laetitia Pilkington Committed Copy Share Image
Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers? — Laetitia Pilkington Accusers Copy Share Image
by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the… — Laetitia Pilkington Character Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or… — Laetitia Pilkington Agony Copy Share Image
I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short,… — Laetitia Pilkington Admonition Copy Share Image
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime. — Laetitia Pilkington Crime Copy Share Image
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if… — Laetitia Pilkington Certain Copy Share Image
