beware quotes

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'Kubla Khan'.

Latin. Langage naturel de l'homme. Ga"  te l'e  criture. Est seulement utile pour comprendre les inscriptions des fontaines publiques. Il faut se me  fier des citations en Latin; elles cachent toujours quelque chose de leste. Latin. Man's natural language. Spoils your style.Useful only for reading the inscriptions on public fountains. Beware of quotations in Latin: theyalways conceal something improper.

- Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard et Pe  cuchet avec un choix des sce  narios, du Sottisier, L'Album de la Marquise et Le Dictionnaire des ide  es re c° ues. (published1881, translated by Geoffrey Wall,1994).

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

- (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli Fuller
  Letter to her brother, 20 Dec. Collected in  Alice Rossi The Feminist Papers (1973).

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Religion'.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings'.

Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmenttraps for eager and clever foolsa dog has a keener noseevery creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophyand literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

- Gary Sherman Snyder
  Earth House Hold,'Japan FirstTimeAround, 24: X'.

   Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.

- Robert Southey
  The Doctor, ch.34.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

- Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
Her personal motto, quoted byJohn Cornwell in the Sunday Times,15 May1994.