Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “My dears, I want to drink your health and prosperity; and may every blessing attend you both. I know you both from children, and have, with love and pride, seen you grow up. Now I want you to make your home here with me. I have left to me neither chick nor child; all are gone, and in my will I have left you everything.”

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252. “She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there, the pointed teeth, the blood stained, voluptuous mouth, which made one shudder to see, the whole carnal and unspirited appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy’s sweet purity.”

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253. “My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly.”

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254. “I wish you could be coming home soon enough to stay with us here. This strong air would soon restore Jonathan; it has quite restored me.”

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255. “But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires.”

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256. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, “Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”

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257. “But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were.”

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258. “The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love.”

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259. “Amo la sombra y la oscuridad, y prefiero, cuando puedo, estar a solas con mis pensamientos.”

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260. “Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?”

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261. “Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!”

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262. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot and you will survive whatever is coming.”

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263. “Your friend, Dracula.”

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264. “And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.”

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265. “She came at once, after saying pleasantly to Mr Renfield: ‘Good-bye, and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to yourself’, to which, to my astonishment, he replied: ‘Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. May He bless and keep you!”

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266. “If I could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good, unselfish cause to make me work, that would be indeed happiness.”

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267. “It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? – Jonathan Harker.”

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268. “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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269. “Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable.”

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270. “My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her.”

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271. “I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young.”

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272. “We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died.”

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273. “I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.”

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274. “I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be.”

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275. “Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”

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276. “He took with him a bag in which were many instruments and drugs, ‘the ghastly paraphernalia of our beneficial trade’, as he once called, in one of his lectures, the equipment of a professor of the healing craft.”

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277. “Even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under.”

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278. “Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall.”

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279. “Back, back to you own place! Your time is not yet come. Wait. Have patience. Tomorrow night, tomorrow night, is yours!”

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280. “Now take down our brave young lover, give him of the port wine, and let him lie down for a while. He must then go home and rest, sleep much and eat much, that he may be resusciated of what he has given to his love. He must not stay here.”

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281. “Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.”

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282. “Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling.”

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283. “I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where.”

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284. “How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one.”

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285. “I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me. It is destroying my nerve. I start at my own shadow, and am full of all sorts of horrible imaginings. God knows that there is ground for my terrible fear in this accursed place!”

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286. “There was something diabolically sweet in her tones – something of the tingling of glass when struck – which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.”

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287. “I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.”

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288. “They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to dawn or at the turn of the tide.”

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289. “I loved him and honoured him more than I can say, and that my latest and truest thought will be always for him.”

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290. “Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?” He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. “Would I were!” he said. “Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.”

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291. “Es mucho trabajo, pero hay recompensas en el hecho de que podamos dar tanta felicidad.”

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292. “I know you well enough, you are the old fool Van Helsing. I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else. Damn all thick-headed Dutchmen!”

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293. “He laughed till he cried, and I had to draw down the blinds lest anyone should see us and misjudge; and then he cried, till he laughed again; and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does.”

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294. “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. I.”

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295. “Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.”

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296. “Bogies is rats, and rats is bogies!”

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297. “It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.”

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298. “Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I’m going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.”

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299. “To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.’ For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck.”

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300. “What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?”

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