Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Birthmark.
Science Quotes
IN the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spirit...
Mortality Quotes
To explain this conversation it must be mentioned that in the centre of Georgiana's left cheek there was a singular mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and substance of her face. (7)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
We know not whether Aylmer possessed this degree of faith in man's ultimate control over Nature. (1)
Foolishness and Folly Quotes
To explain this conversation it must be mentioned that in the centre of Georgiana's left cheek there was a singular mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and substance of her face. (7)
Marriage Quotes
He had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion. (1)