“I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind” (114)

“Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence” (116)

“Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance” (117)

“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was” (117)

“I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it” (118)

“a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster” (120)

“from that moment I declared everlasting was against the species, and, more than all, against him who formed me, and sent me forth to this unsupportable misery” (121)

“The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart” (124)

“I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone” (125)

“one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me” (127)

“if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred” (128)

“when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred” (130)

“Its hills were covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains. Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky; and, when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant, when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean” (143)