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
nuts cracks standing
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
men hands brave
A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
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!
dream play wonderful
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
mood terror antidote
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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.
halloween welcome count-dracula
I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
able
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
past safety assurance
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
feelings mind literature
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
literature castles fixed
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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.
faith believe faculty
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
mean men thinking
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.