Frankenstein Quotes

Justine

I did confess, but I confessed a lie.

Walton

Will kill no albatross.

Walton

I cannot withstand their demands. I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I must return.

Walton

Hypocritical fiend! If he whom you mourn were still alive... Again he would become the prey of your accursed vengeance.

Walton

I greatly need a friend who would not despise me as a romantic.

Creature

If I cannot inspire love, I will create fear.

William

Hideous monster let me go, my papa is a syndic.

Elizabeth

Something whispers to me not to depend do much on the prospect before us.

Elizabeth

If she had earnestly wanted, I would have willingly given it to her.

Victor

Devil, do you dare approach me?

Justine

I know how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it.

Creature

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous.

Creature

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.

Creature

I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Clerval

How great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of book-keeping.

DeLacy Father

Unfortunately, my children are from home, and as I am blind.

Waldman

If your application equals your ability, I have no doubt of your success.

Alphonse

You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you. And poor Clerval.

Alphonse

My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.

Alphonse

William is dead!

Caroline

I have a pretty present for my Victor, tomorrow he shall have it.

Caroline

My firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.

Elizabeth

Answer me...with simple truth---do you love another?

Krempe

Every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost... you must begin your education again.

Victor

Ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.

Victor

I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.

Victor

I consent to your demand, on the solemn oath to quit Europe forever.

Victor

Farewell... Seek happiness and avoid ambition....

Victor

Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.

Felix

We can never again inhabit your cottage.

Justine

I did confess, but I confessed a lie.

Walton

Will kill no albatross.

Walton

I cannot withstand their demands. I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I must return.

Walton

Hypocritical fiend! If he whom you mourn were still alive... Again he would become the prey of your accursed vengeance.

Walton

I greatly need a friend who would not despise me as a romantic.

Creature

If I cannot inspire love, I will create fear.

William

Hideous monster let me go, my papa is a syndic.

Elizabeth

Something whispers to me not to depend do much on the prospect before us.

Elizabeth

If she had earnestly wanted, I would have willingly given it to her.

Victor

Devil, do you dare approach me?

Justine

I know how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it.

Creature

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous.

Creature

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.

Creature

I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Clerval

How great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of book-keeping.

DeLacy Father

Unfortunately, my children are from home, and as I am blind.

Waldman

If your application equals your ability, I have no doubt of your success.

Alphonse

You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you. And poor Clerval.

Alphonse

My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.

Alphonse

William is dead!

Caroline

I have a pretty present for my Victor, tomorrow he shall have it.

Caroline

My firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.

Elizabeth

Answer me...with simple truth---do you love another?

Krempe

Every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost... you must begin your education again.

Victor

Ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.

Victor

I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.

Victor

I consent to your demand, on the solemn oath to quit Europe forever.

Victor

Farewell... Seek happiness and avoid ambition....

Victor

Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.

Felix

We can never again inhabit your cottage.