325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

The modern masters promise very little.

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

I am unstable, sometimes melancholy, and have been called on some occasions imperious; but I never did an ungenerous act in my life. I sympathise warmly with others, and have wasted my heart in their love.

When I step into the batter’s box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.