Top 100 Bram Stoker Quotes
#1. Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.
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#2. why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?
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#3. She has man's brain
a brain that a man should have were he much gifted
and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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#4. She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours.
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#5. I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.
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#6. There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!
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#7. I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.
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#8. He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He
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#9. On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast.
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#10. It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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#11. Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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#12. What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?
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#13. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men
even if there are monsters in it.
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#14. It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
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#15. The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.
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#16. To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
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#17. Alone with the dead, I dare not go out!
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#18. Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.
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#19. It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.
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#20. The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. The latter are only helpful in the recurrence of opportunities; in the possibilities of repetition.
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#21. So my days go on, and grow to weeks and months. So will they grow to years, should life so long remain an unwelcome guest within me: for what is man without hope? and is not hope nigh dead within this weary breast?
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#22. I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
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#24. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.
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#25. But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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#26. I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.
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#27. Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.
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#28. What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.
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#29. He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
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#30. Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens.
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#31. We learn of great things by little experiences.
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#32. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.
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#33. In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
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#34. His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down.
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#35. presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract. I
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#36. All I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky.
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#37. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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#38. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.
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#39. When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.
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#40. The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
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#41. I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better.
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#42. Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.
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#43. I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
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#44. But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were
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#45. Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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#46. DRACULA A Mystery Story by Bram Stoker
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#47. and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.
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#48. The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and
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#49. For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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#50. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already.
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#51. And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.
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#52. He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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#53. Or else the fatalities of the night would have increased manifold.
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#54. Enter freely and of your own free will!
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#55. It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.
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#56. more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.
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#57. By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take me out of this and save my soul from guilt!
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#58. I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.
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#59. Miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock.
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#60. We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
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#61. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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#62. All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.
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#63. have a dim half remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing, darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant.
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#64. Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic.
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#65. All men are mad in some way or the other;
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#66. We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.
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#67. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.
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#68. The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood.
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#69. No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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#70. As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.
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#71. Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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#72. There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.
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#73. Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?
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#74. Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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#75. A sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much interest to other people; but it is not intended for them.
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#76. I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;-
"Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"
He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:-
"Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
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#77. And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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#78. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I
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#79. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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#80. She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!
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#81. There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
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#82. I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.
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#83. give a guest everything and leave him to do as he likes.
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#84. Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.
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#85. Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
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#86. Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.
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#87. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.
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#88. This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.
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#89. Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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#91. You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked,
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#92. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)
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#93. A man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me.
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#94. It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.
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#95. Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends.
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#96. You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.
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#97. A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!
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#98. Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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#99. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.
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#100. I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.
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