Charles Maturin Quotes

Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin , was an Irish Protestant clergyman and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. September 1782 – 30. October 1824
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Famous Charles Maturin Quotes

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

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

“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.

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