Quotes

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

  The creature, Chapter 10

• Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

  The creature, Chapter 20

• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge…

  Victor, Chapter 4

• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

  Victor, Chapter 23

• I am malicious because I am miserable.

  The creature, Chapter 17

• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos…

  Mary Shelley, Introduction to the 1831 edition

From the 1831 text, in Mary Shelley's original words.