Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “It is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time.”

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302. “He was lying on his belly on the floor, licking up, like a dog, the blood from my wounded wrist.”

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

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304. “When I told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter’s renewed strength and excellent spirits. I was firm, however, and made preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by the bedside. She.”

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

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

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309. “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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310. “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. Now sit still a while. Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass houses all the year. I had to telegraph yesterday, or they would not have been here.” We.”

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311. “Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!”

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312. “I suppose there is something in a women’s nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.”

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313. “In the dawn of the language, the word ‘worm’ had a somewhat different meaning from that in use to-day. It was an adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon ‘wyrm,’ meaning a dragon or snake; or from the Gothic ‘waurms,’ a serpent;.”

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314. “The count’s mysterious warning frightened me at the time, it frightens me more now when I think of it, for in future he has a fearful hold upon me. I shall fear to doubt what he may say!”

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315. “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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316. “But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one.”

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317. “When first the professor’s eye had lit upon him he had been angry at any interruption at such a time, but now, as he took in his stalwart proportions and recognised the strong young manhood which seemed to emanate from him, his eyes gleamed.”

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318. “His face was not a good face; it was hard, and cruel, and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like an animal’s. Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.”

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319. “One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah, yes, I know, friend John. I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go.” In.”

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “A brave man’s hand can speak for itself;.”

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323. “Pero un extranjero en una tierra extranjera, no es nadie; los hombres no lo conocen, y no conocer es no importar.”

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324. “The time is come, I fear, when I must open the parcel, and know what is written.”

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325. “I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it’s own calms.”

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326. “She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the same words in tones which wrung my heart. Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion.”

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327. “His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing. The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac. I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will work out; then I shall know more.”

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328. “He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He.”

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329. “I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.”

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330. “The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.”

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331. “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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332. “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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333. “What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?”

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334. “Oh, yes! They, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten. It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.” Whilst.”

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335. “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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336. “I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky.”

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337. “I quite love that dear Dr Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already.”

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338. “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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339. “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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340. “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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341. “Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted.”

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

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343. “Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young like the fine ladies at the opera. I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism.”

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

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

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346. “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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347. “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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348. “It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help.”

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349. “As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man’s hand would have any effect on him.”

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350. “And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.”

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