“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Listen to them – children of the night. What music they make.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
― Bram Stoker, DRACULA
“Despair has its own calms”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I will not let you go into the unknown alone.”
― Bram Stoker
“Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula
“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart…”
~Quincey Morris”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast)”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.
And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture
Then lapped the white, sharp teeth.
Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited. ”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”
― Bram Stoker, The New Annotated Dracula
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.
Ah, we men and women
are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different
ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes,
they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too
great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the
sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to
go on with our labor, what it may be.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”
― Bram Stoker
“Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The blood is the life!”
― Bram Stoker
“There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“This man belongs to me, I want him!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker
“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, Dracula
“We learn of great things by little experiences.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Sleep has no place it can call its own.”
― Bram Stoker
“Take me away from all this Death.”
― Bram Stoker
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow…
Some of the…Oh my god…my god
What have I done?”
― Bram Stoker
“Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. ”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Enter freely and of your own free will!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?”
― Bram Stoker
“And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me – against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born – I was countermining them. 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. You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. You have aided in thwarting me; now you shall come to my call.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula
“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!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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
“The blood is life… and it shall be mine!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!”
― Bram Stoker, 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”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;-
“Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!”
He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:-
“Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Dan beranikanlah dirimu membuktikan kebenaran yang kau benci!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“(La risa) es una reina que viene y va. No le pregunta a nadie, no elige los momentos adecuados (…), la Reina Risa viene a mi y me grita al oído: ¡Aquí estoy! ¡Aquí estoy!, hasta que la sangre regresa y trae a mis mejillas un poco de la luz del sol que siempre lleva consigo.”
― Bram Stoker
“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, Dracula
“My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.”
― Bram Stoker
“You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher’s. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen
give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees
no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“i am Dracula;and i bid you welcome,Mr. Harker,to my house.”
― Bram Stoker
“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject of great floods. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!”
― Bram Stoker
“You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: “Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“La desazón es un instinto y un modo de advertencia.”
― Bram Stoker, The Burial of the Rats
“What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on, “Do you know what the place is? Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and ever speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? Have you felt the Vampire’s lips upon your throat?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined. It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life – animal life – was not the only thing that could pass away.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Alone with the dead, I dare not go out!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Yo soy Drácula. Le doy la bienvenida, señor Harker, a mi casa.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others. Even friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him eat, never! He throws no shadow, he make in the mirror no reflect, as again Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand, witness again Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolves, and when he help him from the diligence too. He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog, he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lady of the Shroud
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Tales
“She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.”
― Bram Stoker, Lair of the White Worm
“(Drácula) Qué pocos días son necesarios para que pase un siglo.”
― Bram Stoker
“No podía evitar experimentar ese escalofrío que nos invade al llegar el amanecer, que es, a su modo, como un cambio de marea (…) cualquiera que alguna vez, al estar cansado y, por decirlo de algún modo, atado a su sitio haya experimentado ese cambio de atmósfera puede creerlo.”
― Bram Stoker
“Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured…”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing,”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.”
― Bram Stoker
“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula
“I asked Dr. Seward to give me a little opiate of some kind, as I had not slept well the night before……I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula
“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
“I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it’s own calms.”
― Bram Stoker
“A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“They were made by Miss Lucy!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships…I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever-and it has grown with my advancing years-the lonliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope-hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy.” Dr Van Helsing to Mia Seward.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow, but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion. I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Same day, 11 o’clock p. m..—Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us. I believe we forgot everything, except of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start. We had a capital `severe tea’ at Robin Hood’s Bay in a sweet little oldfashioned inn, with a bow window right over the seaweedcovered rocks of the strand. I believe we should have shocked the `New Woman’ with our appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless them! Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to rest, and with our hearts full of a constant dread of wild bulls.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“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, Dracula
“You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster.”
― Bram Stoker
“Take care,” he said, “take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous that you think in this country.” Then seizing the shaving glass, he went on, “And this is the wretched thing that has done the mischief. It is a foul bauble of man’s vanity. Away with it!” And opening the window with one wrench of his terrible hand, he flung out the glass, which was shattered into a thousand pieces on the stones of the courtyard far below. Then he withdrew without a word. It is very annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave, unless in my watch-case or the bottom of the shaving pot, which is fortunately of metal.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Bila kita berhadapan dengan kengerian yang begitu hebat, barulah kita mengerti apa arti kengerian itu sebenarnya”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars
“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. 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. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young – like the fine ladies at the opera.”
― Bram Stoker
“This will not do,’ he said to himself. ‘If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was pretty right! My nerves must have been getting in a queer state. Funny I did not notice it. I never felt better in my life. However it is all right now, and I shall not be such a fool again.’
Then he mixed himself a good stiff glass of brandy and water and resolutely sat down to his work.”
― Bram Stoker, The Judge’s House
“There was of course a considerable concussion as the vessel drove up on the sand heap. Every spar, rope, and stay was strained, and some of the `top-hammer’ came crashing down. But, strangest of all, the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below, as if shot up by the concussion, and running forward, jumped from the bow on the sand.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”
― Bram Stoker
“The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one.”
― Bram Stoker
“There is, however, possibly a serious side to the question, for some of the children, indeed all who have been missed at night, have been slightly torn or wounded in the throat. The wounds seem such as might be made by a rat or a small dog, and although of not much importance individually, would tend to show that whatever animal inflicts them has a system or method of its own. The police of the division have been instructed to keep a sharp lookout for straying children, especially when very young, in and around Hampstead Heath, and for any stray dog which may be about.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
in occasion of Bram Stoker’s 165th Birthday !
