Charles Maturin



Charles Robert Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), also known as C.R. Maturin, was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels.

Quotes

 * A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.
 * 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.
 * Bertram (first staged May 9, 1816), Act II, scene 5.


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


 * They waste life in what are called good resolutions—partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 384.