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.
BRAM STOKERThe angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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The blood is the life!
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
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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.
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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.
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I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Sleep has no place it can call its own.
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Despair has its own calms.
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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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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.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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