black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

Bram Stoker

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.
BRAM STOKER

Country Many Our People Person Place Strange Thing Way
We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
BRAM STOKER

Arm Comprehensive Gigantic Hear Mouth Radiating Shallow Tentaculae
Truly there is no such thing as finality.
BRAM STOKER

Finally No Such Thing
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
BRAM STOKER

Feet Men Mustache White
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
BRAM STOKER

Alter Believe Destiny Even Luckiest Man Power Purpose Single Time
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
BRAM STOKER

Body Envelope Foreign Gather Insensitive Nature Protect Round Somebody Like Dam Tissue
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
BRAM STOKER

Antidote Mood Terror
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 STOKER

Care Land Men
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKER

All Different Direction Drawn Fight Like Men Pull Rope Strain Women
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER

Children Listen Maker Music Night
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
BRAM STOKER

Achieve Create Evoke Goes Life Nothing Spark
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
BRAM STOKER

Full Good How Men Monster Seem Thoughtful
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
BRAM STOKER

All Anchor Drift Faith Now Only Our Reward
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKER

Dream Imagine Play Wonderful
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.
BRAM STOKER

Effort Free Our Pledge Secret Set Silence Toil World
Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.
BRAM STOKER

Doctor Doubt Everything Eyebrow Know Like Yourself

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bram Stoker Quotes