"I wrote it [Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] to prove that one could write so freely about a woman…"

"I now wonder that my book could so long, escape the Vigilance of the Guardians of the Public Manners since nothing is…"

"Truth! stark naked truth, is the word, and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze-wrappe…"

"All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice."

"I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloyed and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inse…"

"I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not going by the right door and knocking desperately at the wrong one, I told h…"

"Your Grace ordered a prosecution against the Printer and publisher of The Memoires of a Lady of Pleasure, the same Bo…"

"Cleland, curious figure. Thought how ’twould have struck you some years ago…"

"[T]hat most licentious and inflaming book"

"[He] went as consul to Smyrna, where, perhaps, he first imbibed those loose principles which, in a subsequent publica…"