81 Quotes by Matthew Gregory Lewis

By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her.

I have no friend! The whole wide world cannot furnish a heart that is willing to participate in the sorrows of mine!

While in each other’s arms entranced They lay, They blessed the night, and curst the coming day. Lee.

The Monk was published anonymously in three volumes on 12 March 1796; it sold for half a guinea.

No matter; Let me at least hear what She has to say. Do, my dear Aunt! Oblige me, I beseech you!

Before He committed his crimes, He had computed every scruple of their weight; and yet he had committed them. ‘Pardon?

You too shall know, what it is to love without hope!

I dreaded their being heard. At length I succeeded in gagging her so completely, that She could not produce a single sound. Theodore.

My Companion in danger seemed entirely to have got rid of her chagrin at being delayed. She laughed, and conversed with the family with infinite gaiety. I strove but in vain to follow her example. My.