Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “We men are all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm. His hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that “Kukri” ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!”

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52. “I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, no as we should know that they will be.”

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53. “Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.”

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54. “No sabe usted lo que es dudar de todo, incluso de uno mismo.”

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55. “Fe: Es una facultad que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.”

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56. “God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.”

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57. “I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal.”

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58. “Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines.”

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59. “There is a method in his madness.”

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60. “I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.”

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61. “How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men – even if there are monsters in it.”

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62. “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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63. “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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64. “No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

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65. “I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”

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

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67. “Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

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

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69. “Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.”

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70. “This man belongs to me, I want him!”

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71. “You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?”

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72. “She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.”

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73. “At the worst it can only be death, and a man’s death is not a calf’s, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same.”

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

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75. “Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps?”

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76. “We’ve all become god’s madmen, all of us.”

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77. “A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.”

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78. “It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

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79. “And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.”

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80. “I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”

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81. “Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.”

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82. “Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.”

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83. “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.”

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84. “Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.”

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85. “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!”

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86. “She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.”

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87. “Sleep has no place it can call its own.”

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88. “Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.”

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89. “3 May. Bistritz. – Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.”

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90. “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

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91. “There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”

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92. “Omnia Romae venalia sunt. Hell has its price!”

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93. “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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94. “My Friend, – Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night. At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, Dracula.”

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95. “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.”

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96. “The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist.”

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97. “She said, “Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or implication, not at any time whilst this remains to me!”

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98. “I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.”

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99. “This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.”

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100. “We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.”

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