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M. G. Lewis quotes
10 quotes from 1 of M. G. Lewis’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
The Monk: A Romance
Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it.
— the Friar · Chapter II
Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XII
I must have your soul; must have it mine, and mine for ever.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XII
You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power.
Hadst Thou but tasted once the thousandth part Of joys, which bless the loved and loving heart, Your words repentant and your sighs would prove, Lost is the time which is not past in love.
But who for a moment can deceive the eyes of love?
Am I not a Man, whose nature is frail, and prone to error?
— Spoken by a character · Chapter II
Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong; and you might as easily persuade me not to love, as I persuade you not to write.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter V
Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm Friend or open Enemy!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VII