Pamela Quotes

We are, 'tis true, very poor, and find it hard enough to live; tho' once, as you know, it was better with us. (5.1)

"We are, 'tis true, very poor, and find it hard enough to live; tho' once, as you know, it was better with us. But we would sooner live upon the Water and Clay of the Ditches I am forc'd to dig, th...

I see my good Mother's Care in your Learning has not been thrown away upon you. My Mother used to say, you lov'd reading; you may look into any of her Books to improve yourself, so you take care of...

And must it not be look'd upon as a sort of Warrant for such Actions, if I stay after this? for I think, when one of our Sex finds she is attempted, it is an Encouragement to a Person to proceed, i...

. . . I have nothing to say but what will make me look more like a vain Hussy, than any thing else: Yet I hope I shan't be so proud as to forget myself. Yet there is a secret Pleasure one has to he...

Pamela owes everything that she is to be, as well as her being, to him; for, I think, she would not have brought me to this, nor made so great a Resistance, but for the good Lessons, and religious...

No, don't go, Pamela; I have something to say to you; and you always fly me so, whenever I come near you, as if you was afraid of me. (14.1)

Forbear, Sir, said I: While I've a Father and Mother, I am not my own Mistress, poor as they are: And I'll see myself quite at Liberty before I shall think myself fit to make a Choice. (46.9)