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.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  '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.

-Flaubert, Gustave
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.

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

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  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.

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

Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmentötraps for eager and clever foolsöa dog has a keener noseöevery 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.

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  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.

-Southey, Robert
  The Doctor, ch.34.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

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