Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Gavin Gordon: Lord Byron

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• Lord Byron : Well, whatever your purpose may have been, my dear, I take great relish in savoring each separate horror. I roll them over on my tongue.

• [first lines] 

  [prologue] 

  [Lord Byron looking out the window at a thunderstorm] 

  Lord Byron : How beautifully dramatic! The cruelest savage exhibition of nature at her worst without.

  [turns to face Mary and Percy Shelley, both seated] 

  Lord Byron : And we three. We elegant three within. I should like to think that an irate Jehovah was pointing those arrows of lightning directly at my head. The unbowed head of George Gordon, Lord Byron. England's greatest sinner. But I cannot flatter myself to that extent. Possibly those thunders are for our dear Shelley. Heavens applause for England's greatest poet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley : What of my Mary?

  Lord Byron : She's an angel.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : You think so?

• Lord Byron : While heaven blasts the night without, open up your pits of hell.

• Lord Byron : You hear? Come Mary, come and watch the storm.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : You know how lightning alarms me.