Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The weather was cheerful, the breath of spring animating. She watched the swelling of the buds—the....

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates....

Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its....

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature....

You have not studied the histories of ancient times, and perhaps know not the life that breathes in them;....

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope,....

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

What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself;....

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind....

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen....