325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master--obey!

¡Que extraña cosa el conocimiento! Una vez que ha penetrado en la mente, se aferra a ella como la hiedra a la roca.

I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.

¿ Era el hombre, efectivamente, tan poderoso, tan virtuoso y magnífico, y no obstante tan depravado y tan bajo? Unas veces parecía un mero vástago del principio del mal; otras,lo más noble y divino que cabe imaginar.

If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being. should be wretched.

I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains.

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever.

The hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost.