de Serizy was one of those women who claim to exercise a sort of sway over fashions and society in Paris; she issued her decrees, saw them received in her own circle, and it seemed to her that all the world obeyed them. She aspired to epigram, she set up for an authority in matters of taste. Literature, politics, men and women, all alike were submitted to her censorship, and the lady herself appeared to defy the censorship of others. Her house was in every respect a model of good taste.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of Plays, a bulwark for the preservation of their comfort and sensibility against the spiritual researches and speculations of bolder and too active spirits--it has become time to consider whether we should not seriously extend a principle, so grateful to the majority, to all our institutions.英文原著 · 《Censorship and Art》
We have seen, then, that Censorship is at least as necessary over Literature, Art, Science, and Religion as it is over our Drama,. We have now to call attention to the crowning need--the want of a Censorship in Politics.英文原著 · 《Censorship and Art》
By the charter of King Charles II. this college was to consist of a president, four censors, ten elects, and twenty-six fellows; the censors to be chosen out of the fellows, and the president out of the elects.英文原著 · 《London in 1731》
-- Livy, xxi. The informers throw their scrolls into it. See Livy, xlix. A censor could not be troubled even by a censor; each made his remark without taking the opinion of his colleague; and when it otherwise happened, the censorship was in a manner abolished. At Athens the Logist?, who made all the magistrates accountable for their conduct, gave no account themselves. It is so practised at Venice. -- Amelot de la Houssaye, pp. 30, 31.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
One good result was produced by my adventure, which any censorship must have approved: it cured me of ever again trying _"Rouge et Noir"_ as an amusement. The sight of a green cloth, with packs of cards and heaps of money on it, will henceforth be forever associated in my mind with the sight of a bed canopy descending to suffocate me in the silence and darkness of the night.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
I don't believe in censorship, but I'm a big believer in self-censorship.美剧 · 《The News Room》