Quotes by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Irish author

Lived from: 1847 - 1912

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 8 november 1847 Died: 20 april 1912

  • The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
  • Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

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  • A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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  • And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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  • Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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  • Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
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  • Despair has its own calms.
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  • He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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  • 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.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward
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  • 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.
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  • It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
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  • 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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  • Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
    Dracula
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  • Listen to them — children of the night. What music they make.
    Dracula
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  • No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
    Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
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  • Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
    Dracula (1897) Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward
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  • One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
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  • Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
    Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
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  • Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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  • The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Dracula (1897)
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  • There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
    Dracula
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  • There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
    Dracula Dracula (2007 edition), Book Jungle
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What are the most famous quotes from Bram Stoker?

The two most famous quotes from Bram Stoker are:

  • "A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century."
  • "And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again."

When did Bram Stoker live?

Bram Stoker was born in 1847 and died in the year 1912.