"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…"

"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"

"Found him in an old house in the Savoy, just by the waterside. A coarse, ugly old man for his servant. His room, fill…"

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