Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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All men are mad in some way or the other, 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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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
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I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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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. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
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She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Go home, Johann - Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
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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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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.