Quotes from Elizabeth Inchbald

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.

The two anonymously published epistolary novels Appearance is against Them (1786) and Emily Herbert: or, Perfidy Punished (1786) were later ascribed to the hand of Elizabeth Inchbald, though there is much dispute now whether she actually wrote them.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.