A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKERThere 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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
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It 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.
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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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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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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Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don’t often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means.
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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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We learn from failure, not from success!
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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