Top 100 Quotes About Bram Stoker
#1. 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
#2. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
Francis Ford Coppola
#4. [Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.
Edmund Morris
#5. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.
Eula Biss
#6. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
Victor LaValle
#8. I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.
Ray Wise
#9. Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.
Meg Cabot
#10. I'm on your side here, Bram Stoker. Don't get your cape in a bunch." Angel
Ditter Kellen
#11. I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#12. Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.
Christopher Fowler
#13. We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do ... Bram Stoker.
Steven Dietz
#14. Ah crap!" I instantly shooed away darkness and whatnot, so that I was solid, visible me again. "Sorry, Stevie Rae. I forgot I'd gone all Bram Stoker.
Kristin Cast
#15. He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.
Elizabeth Kostova
#16. I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
Christopher Moore
#18. It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.
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#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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.
Bram Stoker
#22. 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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#23. Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!
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#25. 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.
Bram Stoker
#26. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess
Bram Stoker
#27. 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
#28. Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.
Bram Stoker
#29. why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?
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#30. Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.
Bram Stoker
#31. but there was a queer, acrid smell about.
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#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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.
Bram Stoker
#35. I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
Bram Stoker
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I ain't afraid of dyin', not a bit, only I don't want to die if I can help it.
Bram Stoker
#39. 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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#40. 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.
Bram Stoker
#41. Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them.
Bram Stoker
#42. 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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#43. For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.
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#44. 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.
Bram Stoker
#45. 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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#46. I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome ...
Bram Stoker
#47. I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn ...
Bram Stoker
#48. 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.
Bram Stoker
#49. Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER
Bram Stoker
#50. It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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#51. Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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#52. He came back full of life and hope and determination.
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#53. It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker
Bram Stoker
#54. But now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy.
Bram Stoker
#55. Clasps his laps around minas throat, pieces her skin and drinks her blood. He then forces her into an act that binds her to the vampire for eternity
Bram Stoker
#56. What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?
Bram Stoker
#57. We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Bram Stoker
#58. The devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room.
Bram Stoker
#59. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men
even if there are monsters in it.
Bram Stoker
#60. For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
Bram Stoker
#61. 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?
Bram Stoker
#62. The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.
Bram Stoker
#63. To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
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#64. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.
Bram Stoker
#65. Alone with the dead, I dare not go out!
Bram Stoker
#66. I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
Bram Stoker
#67. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.
Bram Stoker
#68. Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.
Bram Stoker
#69. Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.
Bram Stoker
#70. There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white ... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.
Bram Stoker
#71. There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Bram Stoker
#72. We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.
Bram Stoker
#73. He bowed in a courtly way as he replied: I am Dracula. and I bid you welcome, Mr Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.
Bram Stoker
#74. When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been watered.
Bram Stoker
#75. Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.
Bram Stoker
#76. 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.
Bram Stoker
#77. No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
Bram Stoker
#78. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah, yes, I know, friend John. I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go. In
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#79. 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.
Bram Stoker
#80. 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?
Bram Stoker
#81. Stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps
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#82. 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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#83. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish.
Bram Stoker
#84. 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.
Bram Stoker
#85. Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
Bram Stoker
#86. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
Bram Stoker
#87. Passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms. 31
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#88. You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your toilet.
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#89. Ah,it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not,then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs,which think themselves new; and which are yet but old,which pretend to be young like fine ladys at the opera.
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#90. God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings. - Van Helsing, Dracula
Bram Stoker
#91. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear,
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#92. 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.
Bram Stoker
#93. My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way..
Bram Stoker
#94. And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.
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#95. I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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#96. I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Bram Stoker
#97. I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.
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#98. My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.
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#99. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch
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#100. 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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