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
BRAM STOKERBut 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
-
-
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER -
I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
BRAM STOKER -
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
BRAM STOKER -
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
BRAM STOKER -
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKER -
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.
BRAM STOKER -
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
BRAM STOKER -
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
BRAM STOKER -
Faith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKER -
The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go — the pains of Day to soothe, console — Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.
BRAM STOKER -
I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
BRAM STOKER -
Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKER -
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
BRAM STOKER -
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
BRAM STOKER -
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
BRAM STOKER