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
believe heart men
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.
beautiful soul world
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
eye animal white
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.
eye men thinking
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. 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.
light darkness beautiful-books
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
revenge sides century
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
thoughtful men good-man
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
movie children halloween
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
memories stronger remember
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
dream sweet pain
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! 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.
reason-why reason all-things
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
inspirational wisdom learning
We learn from failure, not from success!
despair calm
Despair has its own calms.
good-morning sweet pain
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.