B Stoker Quotes

#1. Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Bram Stoker

#2. I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.

Bram Stoker

#3. 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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#4. For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.

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#5. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

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#6. A man must choose his own way of life, and ... it is only by following out one's own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.
[In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

Winston S. Churchill

#7. Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them.

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#8. My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me.

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#9. When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it.

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#10. I ain't afraid of dyin', not a bit, only I don't want to die if I can help it.

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#11. 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!

Bram Stoker

#12. I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.

Bram Stoker

#13. I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

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#14. 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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#15. 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.

Bram Stoker

#16. Festina lente may well be his motto

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#17. but there was a queer, acrid smell about.

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#18. Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.

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#19. why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?

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#20. Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.

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#21. There must be no concealment," she said. "Alas! We have had too much already. And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now!

Bram Stoker

#22. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess

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#23. But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires.

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#24. i would rather be an angel than God

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#25. Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

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#26. He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

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#27. And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.

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#28. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

Bram Stoker

#29. Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!

Bram Stoker

#30. Ever since I arrived in America to promote "Stoker," I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.

Park Chan-wook