Eliza Haywood

“Oh! how difficult it is to make a woman condescend to enter into a breach of decorum, and how easy to make her go all lengths when she has once been prevailed upon to step over the first bounds of it.”

“This is a world of error and repentance.”

“She knew so little of the world, that she had never once heard of such a thing as a man's being false.”

“Curiosity is a passion as natural to us as any other; and is in some manner the forerunner of all the rest.”

“Where Love is, there can be no great Faults; and where it is not, there can be no real Perfections.”

“A woman's pride, which is composed of a thousand contradictory whims, is the most nonsensical, and at the same time the most prevailing passion of the whole sex.”

“A fair Maiden, who has that in her Looks which is not to be resisted.”

“O how little do they know of the Torments of a hoping, and despairing Lover, who have not experienced what it is!”

“Mankind, in general, are more led by the ears than the eyes.”

“It is not the Head, but the Heart, that is the Seat of this amiable Passion.”

“Virtue is a guard that will not suffer itself to be corrupted.”

“Wit without discretion is a dangerous weapon.”