Books Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“...the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley