Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

- Laetitia Pilkington

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they h…

- Laetitia Pilkington

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin thro…

- Laetitia Pilkington

A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I ha…

- Laetitia Pilkington

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

- Laetitia Pilkington

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

- Laetitia Pilkington

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scri…

- Laetitia Pilkington