Dracula Quotes

“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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

“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. ”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“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, Dracula

“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Enter freely and of your own free will!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“This man belongs to me, I want him!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“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?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep...”
― Nicky Raven, Dracula

“You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The blood is life... and it shall be mine!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula