Mary Shelley Quotes

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden.

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)