Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Edited by Joan New and Melvyn New, Penguin Classics, 2003.

1. "Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen" (Page 555)

2. "A sudden impulse comes across me---drop the curtain, Shandy! I drop it" (Page 253)

3.  "Writing, when properly managed, is but a different name for conversation" (Page 96)

Collier, Jeremy. Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 1698.

1. "Instruction is the principal design of both. The one works by terror, the other by infamy."

2. "The chief business of a poet was to instruct the audience"

3. "Smuttiness is a fault in behavior as well as in religion"

4. "Modesty is the distinguishing virtue of that sex and serves both for ornament and defense"

Behn, Aphra. “The Rover.” Four Great Restoration Comedies, edited by William Wycherley, Dover Publications, 2012.

1. "I perceive good Father Captain, you would impose no severe Penance on her who was inclin’d to console her self before she took Orders." (Page 179)

2. "Have a care how you venture with me, Sir, lest I pick your Pocket, which will more vex your English Humour, than an Italian Fortune will please you"
   (Page 178)