You know how lightning alarms me.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Monster'S Bride (Elsa Lanchester)

4 seconds sound clip from the Bride of Frankenstein movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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, heaven's applause for England's greatest poet.

- What of my Mary?

- She is an angel.

- You think so.

- You hear? Come, Mary. Come and watch the storm.

- You know how lightning alarms me.

- Shelley, darling, will you please light these candles for me?

- Oh, Mary, darling. Astonishing creature.

- I, Lord Byron?

- Frightened of thunder, fearful of the dark, and yet you have written a tale that sent my blood into icy creeps.

- Look at her. Can you believe that bland and lovely brow conceived of Frankenstein, a monster created from cadavers out of rifled graves? Isn't it astonishing?

[...]

Bride of Frankenstein Sound Clip

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Sound bites of memorable lines and quotes from the Bride of Frankenstein movie (1935).

Actors: Boris Karloff (Frankenstein’s monster), Colin Clive (Henry Frankenstein), Valerie Hobson (Elizabeth Frankenstein), Ernest Thesiger (Dr. Pretorius), Elsa Lanchester (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Monster's Bride)

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