81 Quotes by Matthew Gregory Lewis

She was wise enough to hold her tongue. As this is the only instance known of a Woman’s ever having done so, it was judged worthy to be recorded here.

Even at this moment I lament his loss, though ’tis to him that I owe all the miseries of my existence.

I have no Friend in the world, and from the restlessness of my destiny I never can acquire one. Fain.

You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But.

The critic Thomas-James Mathias, for instance, compared The Monk with John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – ‘Another Cleland.

Weep, Daughter, weep, and moisten your bread with your tears: God knows that you have ample cause for sorrow!

In my veins while blood shall roll, Thou art mine! I am thine! Thine my body! Thine my soul!

Though still unconscious how extensive was its influence, He dreaded the melodious seduction of her voice.

It is not the Woman’s beauty that fills me with such enthusiasm; It is the Painter’s skill that I admire, it is the Divinity that I adore! Are not the passions dead in my bosom? Have.