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John Cleland
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“Truth is irresistible. The vivacity of its coloring has quite a different effect from the daub of falsity or invention.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) first seen 1751 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memoirs of a Coxcomb (1751), p. 53
“I wrote it [Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] to prove that one could write so freely about a woman of the town without resorting to the the coarseness the School of Venus [L'Ecole des Filles], which had quite plain words. My printer and publisher certainly were deceived by my avoiding those rank words in the work, which are all that they judge obscenity by.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As recounted to James Boswell (13 April 1779), in Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck.
“I now wonder that my book could so long, escape the Vigilance of the Guardians of the Public Manners since nothing is truer than that more Clergymen bought it in proportion than any other distinction of men…. The Bishops can take no step to punishing the author that will not powerfully contribute to the notoriety of the book.... a Book I disdain to defend, and wish, from my Soul, buried and forgot.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) first seen 1749 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from John Cleland to Lovel Stanhope, Law Clerk in the Secretary of State's Office (13 November 1749).
“Truth! stark naked truth, is the word, and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze-wrapper on it.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That delicate glutton, my nether mouth.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloyed and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same, whatever variety of forms and modes the situations are susceptible of, there is no escaping a repetition of near the same images, the same figures, the same expressions.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not going by the right door and knocking desperately at the wrong one, I told him of it: "Pooh," says he "my dear, any port in a storm.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We no more choose our passions than our features or complexions.”
John Cleland (1709–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source