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“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“I will go," said Lorenzo. And Lorenzo stayed, where he was.”

— 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,…

— 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.”

— 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…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis