Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stokerwas an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 November 1847
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
faith believe faculty
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
beautiful dream country
Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.
stars astrology long
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
years acting actors
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
house made century
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
children men people
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
The Dead travel fast.
past safety assurance
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
able
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
halloween welcome count-dracula
I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
strong waiting silence
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
mood terror antidote
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
dream play wonderful
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
children home land
And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!