Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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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.
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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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?
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