Quotes from Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz

expostulate.

The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.

Cuanta razón tenía Disraeli! Cuando nuestro pájaro halla abierta la jaula, no quiso volar.

Now," said Sir Nathaniel, anxious to restore peace, "have you found out anything yet regarding the negro?  I am anxious to be posted regarding him.  I fear there will be, or may be, grave trouble with him.

and they open their hearts to him.  It seems that this Oolanga is quite a great person in

She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus.

La vida no es más que una espera de algo distinto de lo que estamos haciendo; y solo de la muerte podemos depender.

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

is enough to dry up the springs of pity in one's heart

with true Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes.

Les demoiselles d'honneur réjouissent les regards de ceux qui attendent l'arrivée de la mariée; mais survienne celle-ci, et les demoiselles ne brillent plus pour personne.

No debe estar solo; porque estar solo es estar lleno de miedos y temores.

A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.

With a red light of triumph in his eyes, and a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of

Faith, that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

The clock was striking one as I was in the Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

Todo parecía tan real que apenas podía imaginarme que me hubiese sucedido en otro tiempo; y, sin embargo, cada episodio acontecía no como un paso más en la lógica de las cosas, sino como algo esperado. Así es como el recuerdo gasta bromas para bien o para mal; para el placer o el dolor; para la felicidad o la aflicción. Así se explica que la vida tenga sabor agridulce y que lo que uno hiciera antaño se revista de eternidad.

Prawdziwy Bóg zapÅ'acze nad wróblem, który spadÅ' z nieba. lecz Bóg zrodzony z ludzkiej pró?noÅ›ci nie dostrzega ró?nicy miÄ™dzy wróblem a orÅ'em.

Bienvenido a mi morada. Entre libremente, por su propia voluntad, y deje parte de la felicidad que trae

Death and the devil go together, and so sure as the devil grips hold of you, death is not far off, you may be sure, in some form or other, waiting, waiting, waiting.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.