Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be.”

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253. “What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?”

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “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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258. “We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died.”

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259. “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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260. “Bogies is rats, and rats is bogies!”

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261. “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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262. “Your friend, Dracula.”

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “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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266. “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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267. “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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268. “The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.”

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269. “I positively opened my eyes at this new development. Here was my own pet lunatic – the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with – talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman.”

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270. “But now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy.”

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271. “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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272. “We have been blind somewhat; blind after the manner of men, since when we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?”

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273. “When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done. I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion.”

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274. “We only waited to learn where the change would occur. None the less, however, it was a surprise. I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o’-the-wisp to man.”

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275. “While I live on here there is but one thing to hope for: that I may not go mad, if indeed, I be not mad already. If I be sane, then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the count is the least dreadful to me; that to him alone I can look for safety, even though this be only whilst I serve his purpose.”

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276. “It is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time.”

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277. “When I saw the count’s head coming out from the window, I did not see the face, but I knew the mean by the neck and the movement of his back and arms. In any case, I could not mistake the hands which I had had so many opportunities of studying.”

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278. “If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.”

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279. “Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted.”

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

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282. “Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself.”

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283. “The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.”

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284. “Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.”

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285. “He removed the flowers and lifted the silk handkerchief from her throat. As he did so he started back and I could hear his ejaculation, “Mein Gott!” as it was smothered in his throat. I.”

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286. “When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.”

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287. “Between me and the moon light flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles.”

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288. “Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.”

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289. “I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I die in the doing. I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were placed.”

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290. “She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus.”

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

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292. “So, my dear, we will send him away to smoke the cigarette in the garden, whiles you and I have little talk all to ourselves.′ I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the professor came to the window and called me in. He.”

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

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

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296. “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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297. “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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298. “The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I.”

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299. “We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.”

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300. “When she saw my face at the window she threw herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace, “Monster, give me my child!”

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