349 Quotes by Bram Stoker

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.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

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.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

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.

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.