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
animal ideas durability
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.
heart men helping
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
escaping naked bees
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
deceiving century mere
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
faults want ifs
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
angel good-woman hours
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
men want-him want
This man belongs to me, I want him!
thinking mad long
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.
horse light sky
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
life-is depends
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
love-you past count-dracula
You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
thinking men coward
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
strong together purpose
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
patience mean men
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.