Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Do not stir an instant. It is enough. You attend to him; I will look to her.”

— Bram Stoker

452. “He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain.”

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453. “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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454. “I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

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455. “The secret is here, and I do not want to know it.”

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456. “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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457. “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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458. “He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibriate it.”

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459. “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. You tell not your madmen what you do nor why you do it. You tell them not what you think. So you shall keep knowledge in its place, where it may rest, where it may gather its kind around it and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what we know here, and here.” He touched me on the heart and on the forehead, and then touched himself the same way.”

— Bram Stoker

460. “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”

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461. “How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me. And tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me. Thank God! Goodnight Arthur. DR.”

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462. “Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.”

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463. “For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.”

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464. “I caught the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlight sky, except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.”

— Bram Stoker

465. “I go no further than to say that she might be UnDead.”

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466. “The air seems full of specks, floating and circling in the draught from the window, and the lights burn blue and dim.”

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467. “Some of the “New Women” writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.”

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468. “Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.”

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469. “I want you to bear something in mind through all this dreadful time. I know that you must fight – that you must destroy... but it is not a work of hate.”

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470. “Adam, from the moment of their eyes meeting, felt as if they were already friends.”

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471. “Si alguna vez un rostro ha podido expresar la muerte, si una mirada es capaz de matar, aquel rostro, aquella mirada, se hallaban ante nosotros.”

— Bram Stoker

472. “You think then that those so small holes in the children’s throats were made by the same that made the hole in Miss Lucy?” “I suppose so.” He stood up and said solemnly: – “Then you are wrong. Oh, would it were so! but alas! no. It is worse, far, far worse.” “In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?” I cried. He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke: – “They were made by Miss Lucy!”

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473. “How can he” – and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of – “know anything of a young ladies?”

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474. “I suppose a cry does us all good at times.”

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475. “Lucy has not walked much in her sleep the last week, but there is an odd concentration about her which I do not understand; even in her sleep she seems to be watching me.”

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476. “Her struggle back to life was something frightful to see and hear.”

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477. “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.”

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478. “We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful, we got, as some kind of reward for our labours, some real cheerfulness amongst us.”

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479. “After all, he was only a man, with a man’s dislike of difficult or awkward situations.”

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480. “I never knew either father or mother, so that the dear old man’s death is a real blow for me.”

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481. “Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A promise made to me, but made holily in God’s hearing, and not to be broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once.”

— Bram Stoker

482. “Jonathan’s eyes closed, and he went quickly into a sleep, with his head on my shoulder.”

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483. “Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty; for under the circumstances it wouldn’t seem so bad for us to break into an empty house. But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have known better.”

— Bram Stoker

484. “I kept away from my friend for days, so that I might notice if there was any change.”

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485. “You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to begin.”

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486. “She asks Mimi and me to tea this afternoon at Diana’s Grove, and hopes that you also will favour her.”

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487. “He is there. I know the secret now. The sea will save me from Him, and it is all that is left.”

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488. “It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very peculiar man!”

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489. “Some girls are so vain!”

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490. “In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the south, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the west; and Szekelys in the east and north.”

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491. “We Szekelys2 have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races3.”

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492. “I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of life amongst the insane is beginning to tell upon my own brain.”

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493. “I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.”

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494. “DRACULA A Mystery Story by Bram Stoker.”

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495. “Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us. Let us not be two, but one, that so we work to a good end. Will you not have faith in me?”

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496. “You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are better than me, better than my friend John.”

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

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498. “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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499. “When I have received your letter, I am already coming to you.”

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500. “All this weakness comes to me in sleep; until I dread the very thought.”

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