Matthew Lewis (writer) Quotes

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when ...

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power.

What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would y...

Extreme in hating and in loving; Abhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike;In formin...

May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still cons...

She was wise enough to hold her tongue. As this is the only instance known of a Woman's ever having ...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her...

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expec...

I must have your soul ; must have it mine, and mine for ever.

Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, d...

Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nou...

In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ...

By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence ...

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attac...