Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him. And yet that man we saw yesterday! He.”

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452. “How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.”

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453. “You must promise me, one and all – even you, my beloved husband – that, should the time come, you will kill me.”

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454. “I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb.”

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455. “Let us not be two, but one, that we work to good end.”

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456. “I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to making myself master of the facts of his hallucination. In my manner of doing it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to wish to keep to the point of his madness-a thing which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.”

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457. “The Host. I brought it from Amsterdam. I have an Indulgence.” It was an answer that appalled the most sceptical of us, and we felt individually that in the presence of such earnest purpose as the Professor’s, a purpose which could thus use the to him most sacred of things, it was impossible to distrust.”

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458. “I suppose he isn’t above trying to use a respectable lunatic.”

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459. “As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man’s hand would have any effect on him.”

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460. “And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.”

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461. “He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.”

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462. “We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England.”

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463. “He has evidently some deep probllem in his mind, for he keeps a little notebook in which he is always jotting down something.”

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464. “Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.”

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465. “At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight.”

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466. “Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.”

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467. “Truly Miss Lucy, if she be sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends that love her. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Oh yes, friend John; I am not blind! I love you all the more for it!”

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468. “Let me advise you, my dear young friend-nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe.”

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469. “Then tell me – for I am a student of the brain – how you accept the hypnotism and reject the thought reading.”

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470. “I was conscious of the presence of the count, and of his being as if lapped in a stain of fury.”

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471. “I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.”

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472. “In his speaking of things and people, and especially of battles, he spoke as if he had been present at them all.”

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473. “I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of instinct; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were stirring to answer the call.”

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474. “All chambers are alike to the doctor;.”

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475. “The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.”

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476. “I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.”

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477. “It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself disassociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought. Am I to take it that I have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together, or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful to him?”

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478. “This paper is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me. I am daze, I am dazzle, with so much light; and yet clouds roll in behind the light every time. But you do not, cannot comprehend. Oh, but I am grateful to you, you so clever woman.”

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479. “I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.”

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480. “Was this desolation but another link in the chain of doom which seemed drawing tight round us?”

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481. “He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition. He is discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service. He shall be ready to attend on you when you will during his stay, and shall take your instructions in all matters.”

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482. “His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen.”

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483. “The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.”

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484. “I shall hide this paper in my breast, where they shall find it when they come to lay me out.”

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485. “In a trance she died, and in trance she is un-dead, too.”

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486. “These friends – and he laid his hand on some of the books – have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.”

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487. “How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the brief gleams of moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing-like the gladness and sorrow of a man’s life; how sweet it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay; how humanising to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city.”

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488. “Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow.”

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489. “To look at you and to feel nothing is the closure that I desire.”

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490. “For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.”

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491. “I wish I could put down all that he said exactly as he said it, for to me it was most fascinating. It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country.”

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492. “He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse.”

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493. “The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and.”

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494. “This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. I love her a thousand times more for her sweet pity of last night, a pity that made my own hate of the monster seem despicable.”

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495. “We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us all up somewhat. It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to hungry people – for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast – or the sense of companionship may have helped us; but anyhow we were all less miserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope.”

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496. “Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit.” “Perhaps.”

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497. “Friend John, to you with so much of experience already – and you, too, dear Madam Mina, that are young – here is a lesson: do not fear ever to think.”

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498. “I know now the span of my life. God help me!”

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499. “To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.”

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500. “He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them, and I should think must have been in his time a most dictatorial person. He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can’t out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.”

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