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Laetitia Pilkington Quotes

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

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

Laetitia Pilkington
Should, Accusers, Monstrous
Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.67, University of Georgia Press

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

Laetitia Pilkington
Merit, Reputation, Crime

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 scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

Laetitia Pilkington
Believe, Disease, Admonition
Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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 through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

Laetitia Pilkington
Bullying, Children, Years

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 had made in the characters of others.

Laetitia Pilkington
Character, Gossip, Dublin
Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.264, University of Georgia Press

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

Laetitia Pilkington
Hypocrisy, Gowns, Sin
Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.156, University of Georgia Press

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 have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.

Laetitia Pilkington
Mean, Giving, Female Writers

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