349 Quotes by Bram Stoker

This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was pretty right! My nerves must have been getting in a queer state. Funny I did not notice it. I never felt better in my life. However it is all right now, and I shall not be such a fool again.' Then he mixed himself a good stiff glass of brandy and water and resolutely sat down to his work.

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.

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?

Oh, very well,” he said,”let her come in, by all means, but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.”His method of tidying was peculiar, he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference. When he had got through his disgusting task, he said cheerfully, “Let the lady come in,

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.