Victor Frankenstein: It's alive. It's alive!
The Creature: What kind of people is it in which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people?

Victor Frankenstein: Materials. Nothing more.

The Creature: You're wrong.

[Picks up recorder]

The Creature: Did you know I knew how to play this? From which part of me did this knowledge reside? From this mind? From these hands? From this heart? And reading and speaking. Not so much things learned as things remembered.

Victor Frankenstein: Slight trace waves in the brain perhaps.

The Creature: Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You made me, and you left me to die. Who am I?

Victor Frankenstein: You? I don't know.

The Creature: And you think that I am evil.
The Creature: I keep my promises.
The Creature: I'd keep my promises if I were you.
Victor Frankenstein: You do speak!

The Creature: Yes, I speak, and read, and think, and know the ways of men.
The Creature: I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
The Creature: You gave me these emotions, but you didn't tell me how to use them. Now two people are dead because of us. Why?

Victor Frankenstein: There was something at work in my soul which I do not understand.

The Creature: And what of my soul? Do I have one? Or was that a part you left out?
Krempe: [voiceover] You fool, Victor Frankenstein of Geneva, how could you know what you had unleashed? How was it pieced together? Bits of thieves? Bits of murderers? Evil stitched to evil stitched to evil. God help your loved ones.
Victor Frankenstein: Do you share my madness?

Walton: No, not madness.

Victor Frankenstein: What, then?

Walton: There is a passage to the North Pole. And I will find it!

Victor Frankenstein: At the cost of your own life and the lives of your own crew?

Walton: Lives come and go. If we succeed, our names will live on forever. I will be hailed as the benefactor of our species.

Victor Frankenstein: You're wrong. I of all men know that.
The Creature: I will have revenge! FRANKENSTEIN!
The Creature: I am done with man.
[Walton finds the Creature weeping over Frankenstein's body]

Captain Robert Walton: Who are you?

The Creature: He never gave me a name.

[he continues to weep]

Captain Robert Walton: Why do you weep?

The Creature: He was my father.
Walton: Who are you?

Victor Frankenstein: My name... is Victor... FRANKENSTEIN
The Creature: If you deny me my wedding night... I shall be with you on yours!
The Creature: Don't bother to scream.
Schiller: Why don't you look where I'm going?
Henry Clerval: I'm here to become a mere doctor. I'm told that has something to do with healing the sick, which is a pity really, because I find sick people rather revolting.
Elizabeth: Promise? Promise? Oh, don't dare use that word to me!
Victor Frankenstein: I haven't got time to argue!

Elizabeth: Oh, isn't it convenient? Or doesn't it fit in with your plans? Don't you ever think of anything or anyone than yourself?
Victor Frankenstein: And I'm frightened that if I tell you the truth, I'll lose you.

Elizabeth: You'll lose me if you don't.
Victor Frankenstein: How close did you come?

Professor Waldman: Too close.
The Creature: I will be with you on your wedding night!

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Quotes

Extended Reading

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein short comments

Quincy 2022-03-26 09:01:07

When I watched it on TV, I was shocked when I saw the rebirth of the monster, and it's still in front of me...hehe.
Reinhold 2021-12-24 08:01:05

The last sentence: He is my father, he never gave me a name. I was completely moved.