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> [“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes the quick cold Lizard rouzed me leaving his slimy track upon my face, and entangling itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/sometimes-i-felt-the-bloated-toad-hideous-and-pampered-with-the/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

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## More by Matthew Gregory Lewis

> [“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/open-your-eyes-ambrosio-and-be-prudent-hell-is-your-lot-you-are/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/guilt-did-i-say-in-what-consists-ours-unless-in-the-opinion-of-an-ill/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“When I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/when-i-said-i-should-die-in-your-service-with-pleasure-i-intended-to/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/she-was-about-forty-in-her-youth-she-had-been-a-beauty-but-her-charms/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/authorship-is-a-mania-to-conquer-which-no-reasons-are-sufficiently/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“I will go," said Lorenzo. And Lorenzo stayed, where he was.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/i-will-go-said-lorenzo-and-lorenzo-stayed-where-he-was/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/by-this-time-he-had-discovered-that-his-neighbour-was-not-very/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/ambrosio-was-yet-to-learn-that-to-an-heart-unacquainted-with-her-vice/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/man-was-born-for-society-however-little-he-may-be-attached-to-the/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“Escribir es una manía frente a la cual ninguna razón es suficientemente sólida; tan fácil sería convencerme a mí de que no ame, como…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/escribir-es-una-man-a-frente-a-la-cual-ninguna-raz-n-es/)

[matthew gregory lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/poor-matilda-she-sleeps-in-the-grave-and-her-broken-heart-throbs-no/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/in-short-to-enter-the-lists-of-literature-is-wilfully-to-expose/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/a-bad-composition-carries-its-own-punishment-contempt-and-ridicule-a/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/no-one-is-adequate-to-comprehending-the-misery-of-my-lot-fate-obliges/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

> [An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/an-author-whether-good-or-bad-or-between-both-is-an-animal-whom-every/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

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