Quotes from Bram Stoker

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.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

The Dead travel fast.

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!

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

The blood is the life!

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

This man belongs to me, I want him!