Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Oh, very well,” he said; “let her come in, by all means; but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.” His method of tidying was peculiar: he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference.”

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402. “The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.”

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403. “Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER.”

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404. “Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart; and I love you the more because it does so bleed.”

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405. “I dined on what they called “robber steak” – bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks, and roasted over the fire, in simple style of the London cat’s meat!”

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406. “I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me. – D.”

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407. “He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.”

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408. “Come with me, my dear young friend. Not an hour shall you wait in my house against your will, though sad am I at your going, and that you so suddenly desire it. Come!”

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409. “As the count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal. The count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim kind of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his proturberant teeth, set himself down again, on his own side of the fireplace.”

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410. “The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On.”

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411. “Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason. So, no matter what ground he comes, we must accept his wishes. He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.”

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412. “He says I afford him a curious psychological study, and I humbly think I do.”

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413. “It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself disassociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought. Am I to take it that I have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together, or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful to him?”

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414. “Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.”

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415. “This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.”

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416. “Time is all in all to us now.”

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417. “Let us not be two, but one, that we work to good end.”

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418. “I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to making myself master of the facts of his hallucination. In my manner of doing it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to wish to keep to the point of his madness-a thing which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.”

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419. “All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world. You tell not your madmen what you do nor why you do it. You tell them not what you think. So you shall keep knowledge in its place, where it may rest, where it may gather its kind around it and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what we know here, and here.” He touched me on the heart and on the forehead, and then touched himself the same way.”

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420. “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”

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421. “How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me. And tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me. Thank God! Goodnight Arthur. DR.”

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422. “Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.”

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423. “I must not deceive myself; it was no dream; but all a grim reality.”

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424. “When I came in he ran to me and said he wanted to ask me a great favour-a very great favour; and as he spoke he fawned on me like a dog.”

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425. “For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.”

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426. “Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.”

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427. “What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.”

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428. “Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.”

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429. “The rats were all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only open an inch wide-just as the Moon herself has often come in through the tiniest crack, and has stood before me in all her size and splendour.”

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430. “She asks Mimi and me to tea this afternoon at Diana’s Grove, and hopes that you also will favour her.”

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431. “Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow.”

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432. “He is there. I know the secret now. The sea will save me from Him, and it is all that is left.”

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433. “To look at you and to feel nothing is the closure that I desire.”

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434. “The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and.”

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435. “But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.”

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436. “I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”

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437. “Even in the dark there was a light of some kind, as there ever is over snow; and it seemed as though the snow-flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of women with trailing garments.”

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438. “Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.”

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439. “The secret is here, and I do not want to know it.”

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440. “Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.”

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441. “He swear much, and he red face and loud of voice, but he good fellow all the same;.”

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442. “Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.”

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443. “We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful, we got, as some kind of reward for our labours, some real cheerfulness amongst us.”

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444. “After a time, it did not seem a short time either, for the draining away of one’s blood, no matter how willingly it be given, is a terrible feeling, Van Helsing held up a warning finger. “Do not stir,” he said. “But I fear that with growing strength she may wake, and that would make danger, oh, so much danger. But I shall precaution take. I shall give hypodermic injection of morphia.” He proceeded then, swiftly.”

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445. “Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies, therefore I like it.” And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do not argue.”

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446. “The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.”

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447. “After all, he was only a man, with a man’s dislike of difficult or awkward situations.”

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448. “I shall hide this paper in my breast, where they shall find it when they come to lay me out.”

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449. “As I raised the blind, the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the professor’s low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart.”

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450. “I picked out one who has afforded me a study of interest. He is so quaint in his ideas, and so unlike the normal lunatic, that I have determined to understand him as well as I can. Today I seemed to get nearer than ever before to the heart of his mystery.”

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