Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
"The Comedies of William Congreve". William and Mary College Monthly, Volume V (p. 41), September 1897; later quoted in "James Branch Cabell at William and Mary: the Education of a Novelist" by William L. Godshalk in "The William and Mary Review", No. 5, 1967, and in "Kalki", Volume II, No. 4, whole No. 8, 1968.
