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.
BRAM STOKERNature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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Paris is a city of centralisation–and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point.
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But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
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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.
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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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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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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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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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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.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for 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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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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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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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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