But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKERBut a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
BRAM STOKERA brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
BRAM STOKERAh, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
BRAM STOKERThis man belongs to me, I want him!
BRAM STOKERI do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
BRAM STOKERLove is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKERThough sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is life… and it shall be mine!
BRAM STOKERThe fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
BRAM STOKERBleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall — all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
BRAM STOKERI sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKERI have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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.
BRAM STOKERThe Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKEROh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
BRAM STOKER