Top 500 Bram Stoker Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me;.”

— Bram Stoker

402. “He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not defibriate it.”

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403. “Let me advise you, my dear young friend-nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe.”

— Bram Stoker

404. “Was this desolation but another link in the chain of doom which seemed drawing tight around us? Was it indeed a house of death to which I had to come too late?”

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405. “Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A promise made to me, but made holily in God’s hearing, and not to be broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once.”

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406. “I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.”

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407. “Jonathan’s eyes closed, and he went quickly into a sleep, with his head on my shoulder.”

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408. “This morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday... I feel strangely sad and low-spirited to-day. I suppose it is the reaction from the terrible excitement... I didn’t feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring anxiety... it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.”

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409. “But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.”

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410. “Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty; for under the circumstances it wouldn’t seem so bad for us to break into an empty house. But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have known better.”

— Bram Stoker

411. “Arthur turned to him and said, ‘If only you knew how gladly I would die for her you would understand.”

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412. “How can I escape from the dreadful thrall of night and gloom and fear?”

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413. “I kept away from my friend for days, so that I might notice if there was any change.”

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414. “You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to begin.”

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415. “How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.”

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416. “I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count’s voice saying to me, “Good morning.” I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.”

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417. “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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418. “So my days go on, and grow to weeks and months. So will they grow to years, should life so long remain an unwelcome guest within me: for what is man without hope? and is not hope nigh dead within this weary breast?”

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419. “Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.”

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420. “I pity your poor bleeding heart.”

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421. “Our nerves are not so calm and our blood not so bright as yours!”

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422. “Do not stir an instant. It is enough. You attend to him; I will look to her.”

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423. “He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain.”

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424. “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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425. “I suppose he isn’t above trying to use a respectable lunatic.”

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426. “You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge that you do not die – nay nor think of death – till this great evil be past.”

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427. “How can he” – and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of – “know anything of a young ladies?”

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428. “Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.”

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429. “I suppose a cry does us all good at times.”

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430. “I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people?”

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

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432. “Lucy has not walked much in her sleep the last week, but there is an odd concentration about her which I do not understand; even in her sleep she seems to be watching me.”

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433. “Her struggle back to life was something frightful to see and hear.”

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434. “I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.”

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435. “DRACULA A Mystery Story by Bram Stoker.”

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436. “Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us. Let us not be two, but one, that so we work to a good end. Will you not have faith in me?”

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437. “Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker.”

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

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439. “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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440. “You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are better than me, better than my friend John.”

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441. “My dear, my dear, your ears must tingle as you sleep, as mine do waking.”

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442. “He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.”

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443. “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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444. “Some of the “New Women” writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.”

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445. “Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.”

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446. “It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.”

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447. “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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448. “I want you to bear something in mind through all this dreadful time. I know that you must fight – that you must destroy... but it is not a work of hate.”

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

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450. “Adam, from the moment of their eyes meeting, felt as if they were already friends.”

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