Charles Maturin Quotes

“They waste life in what are called good resolutions—partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.”

Charles Maturin

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 384.

“Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
'Tis well to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.”

Charles Maturin

Motto to "Bertram," produced at Drury Lane, 1816.

“A malady
Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.”

Charles Maturin

Bertram (first staged May 9, 1816), Act IV, scene 2.

“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings.”

Charles Maturin

Bertram (first staged May 9, 1816), Act II, scene 5.