Mary Shelley Quotes

“Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:happiness truth

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:knowledge mind

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will...”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:knowledge world greatness

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:fear power

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:men bravery

“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:power mystery

“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:friendship cowardice

“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:friendship

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:beauty nature

“Man . . . how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:wisdom ignorance pride

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