Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Well, I shall tell you. My thesis is this, I want you to believe.” “To believe what?” “To believe in things that you cannot.”

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102. “We learn of great things by little experiences.”

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103. “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!”

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104. “I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.”

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105. “Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.”

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106. “The blood is the life!”

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107. “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.”

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108. “Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room. Winning a way past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was something so pantherlike in the movement, something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming.”

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

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110. “As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”

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111. “Seeing from his violent demeanor that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached.”

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112. “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. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist- and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so skeptical and selfish.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings.” – Van Helsing, Dracula.”

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115. “Ah, nosotros hombres y mujeres somos como cuerdas en medio de diferentes fuerzas que nos tiran de diferentes rumbos.”

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116. “It is too bad that men cannot be trusted unless they are watched.”

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117. “Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great state. Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable.”

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118. “I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.”

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119. “Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.”

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120. “But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.”

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121. “All men are mad in some way or the other;.”

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122. “Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!”

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

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

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125. “I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.”

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126. “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.”

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

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128. “Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.”

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129. “A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!”

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130. “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.”

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131. “Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “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.”

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

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135. “Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window.”

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136. “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.”

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137. “A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.”

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138. “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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139. “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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140. “Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o’-the-wisp to man.”

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141. “Are we to have nothing tonight?” said one of them, with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and which moved as though there were some living thing within it. For answer he nodded his head. One of the women jumped forward and opened it. If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half smothered child. The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror. But as I looked, they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag.”

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142. “I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn...”

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

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144. “Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.”

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145. “He who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature’s laws.”

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146. “Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?”

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147. “Well, the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.”

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

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149. “And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study. Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.”

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

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