Bram Stoker Quotes
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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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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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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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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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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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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST
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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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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that 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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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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A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
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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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I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
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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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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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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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But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.