Quotessence
Home / Authors / Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker Quotes

Novelist

Filter quotes by topic

AllDraculaMenBram StokerHorrorKnowsIfsLoveMayMina HarkerHeart

Famous Bram Stoker Quotes

“I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. 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.”

ThinkingMayPersonsAsksLaughingDoorsCryKingsLaughterSorryCriedChokeAlways With You
Book:On Dracula: Including a free facsimile edition of Dracula
Create image

“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.”

WorldHeartPlayTogetherFallLaughingTroubleTearsStrangeKingsMouthsMiseryBonesDryTunesWoeBleedingStrange WorldBleeding HeartSad WorldDry Bones
Book:Dracula (Fidia Classics)
Create image

“Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.”

IfsLongCountryNightSoundImaginationAnimalTakenDogWindGloomDown The RoadHowlWailing
Book:Vampire Novels
Create image

“It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.”

IfsWayShouldMayBodyEvilCausesProtectRootsRoundsVicesDeeperHarmContactSelfishnessPausesEgoismTissuesEnvelopesInsensitiveDames
Book:Dracula
Create image

“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.”

MenWorldLoveBelieveSoulWould BeAgeEffortSecretSilenceEnemyDoubtWiseMankindWillingHonorWeaponsGlorySafetyGod LoveEnlightenedToilPerilArmorGlory Of God
Book:Dracula
Create image

“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.”

IfsKnowsMenNeedsShouldBelieveMayHelpingTodayWinningBreakMinesGratitudePromiseLet MeEsteemVainSunshineGrantsBelieve In MePromise Me
Book:Dracula: World Classics
Create image