Bram Stoker Quotes - Page 3

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

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.

The Dead travel fast.

If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.