Bram Stoker Quotes (86 Quotes)

And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.

I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

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.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn't at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life

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.

Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!

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.

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!

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

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

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

I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup.

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.

Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along. It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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.

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.

Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

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

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

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.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

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.

We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was.

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.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

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.

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.

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

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!

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?

He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws, why we know not. 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. His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

If you could have looked into my heart then when I want to laugh, if you could have done so when the laugh arrived, if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him, for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time, maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all.