I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
BRAM STOKERAnd then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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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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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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We learn from failure, not from success!
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