Frankenstein

Book · 4 characters · 437 quotes · 1818

Quotes from Frankenstein

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"I have sworn vengeance."
Walton Courage
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"What a wonderful season for a voyage and an adventure!"
Walton Adventure
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"Prepare yourself for something strange and wonderful."
Walton Imagination
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"I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle."
Walton Science
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"How you would curse the sun that gazes on your crimes!"
Walton Justice
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"Are you, then, so easily turned from your original purpose?"
Walton Perseverance
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"My dear Margaret, I write to you from a place where I can speak without witnesses."
Walton Solitude
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"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
Walton Change
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"I have been blasted by a course which you have pursued as steadily as I."
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"Yet when I am calm, I feel all the fury of a man deeply injured."
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"Remember, I do not command you to do that which I think is right, for is it indeed right?"
Walton Philosophy
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"Do not attempt this thing; do not renew my griefs with a request which I cannot grant."
Walton Wisdom
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"I am not happy; but I am resigned."
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"All was prepared; and on the tenth of September the ships were ready."
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"But it is in your power to deprive him of these advantages."
Walton Power
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"He spoke with the greatest gentleness and affection."
Walton Kindness
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"Great God! What a scene has just taken place!"
Walton Fear
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"I write not for the indulgence of my passion for writing."
Walton Truth
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"Your letters have awakened old and slumbering feelings; I disdain to call them more."
Walton Relationships
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"I suddenly lost all sight and all sensation for a time."
Walton Fear
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"What is the use of friends if they cannot share our sorrows?"
Walton Friendship
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"My life might have passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement."
Walton Success
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"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did."
Walton Knowledge
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"Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm."
Walton Solitude
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"The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind."
Walton Nature
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"I am satisfied; my work is nearly complete."
Walton Perseverance
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"How gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, and every hope, to have extinguished that life."
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"Some invisible influence whispered to me to have done, yet I continued."
Walton Fear
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"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."
Walton Happiness
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"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example."
Walton Education