THE WORLD in Classic Quotes

1  You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

2  My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

3  Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17

4  What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

5  William and Justine were assassinated, and the murderer escapes; he walks about the world free, and perhaps respected.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

6  It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17

7  He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

8  When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

9  I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1

10  For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

11  I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

12  Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

13  You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

14  Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

15  This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions I never heard one pass her lips, but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

16  Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

17  It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2