Quotes from Bram Stoker

This man belongs to me, I want him!

...he had no distinct idea how many little things went to make up the sum of an ordinary person's daily life.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

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.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

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

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.

There 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.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

Take me away from all this Death.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.