Top 100 Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

2. “What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

3. “Without death,? he answered, ’life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

4. “The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

5. “But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

6. “I wouldn’t back away from what’s right just because it’s hard.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

7. “I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.”

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8. “Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

9. “It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone – leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

10. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

11. “Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

12. “Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

13. “We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

14. “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil – a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” “And your defect, Mr. Darcy, is to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

15. “An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

16. “I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn’t ask me to.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

17. “Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature’s head.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

18. “Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

19. “Tell you now children – you’re all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie. – Found written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, June 6th, 1988.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

20. “Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

21. “I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they’re this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

22. “I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

23. “Of all weapons in the world, I now know love to be the most dangerous. For I have suffered a mortal wound. When did I fall so deeply under your spell, Miss Bennet? I cannot fix the hour or the spot or the look or the words which lay the foundation. I was in the middle before I knew I began. But a proud fool I was. I have faced the harsh truth: that I can never hope to win your love in this life.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

24. “Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers – for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

25. “I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

26. “Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person’s side of the story. Sometime it’s easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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27. “Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

28. “This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

29. “Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!”

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30. “We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

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31. “As Mr. Darcy walked off, Elizabeth felt her blood turn cold. She had never in her life been so insulted. The warrior code demanded she avenge her honour. Elizabeth reached down to her ankle, taking care not to draw attention. There, her hand met the dagger concealed beneath her dress. She meant to follow this proud Mr. Darcy outside and open his throat. But.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

32. “On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.”

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33. “And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.”

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34. “I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.”

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35. “Contrary to his infallibly “honest” image, Abe wasn’t above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

36. “If you’re Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don’t have that body of work, I don’t have that audience that’s comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

37. “So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

38. “I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

39. “Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

40. “The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

41. “So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse’s only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

42. “I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

43. “Nothing kills a vampire as quickly as the past.”

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44. “I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that’s not an exaggeration.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

45. “It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth – all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

46. “The business of Mr. Bennett’s life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett’s was to get them married.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

47. “The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

48. “First I become flush with righteous anger, which, if you must be angry, is the very best kind.”

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49. “My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that Mr. Collins, who seems always eager to talk of Heaven, may be dispatched there by a horde of zombies before I am dead.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

50. “I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith